Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy

Foreword by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret Flynn


Introduction - Beverley Clough and Laura Pritchard- Jones


PART I: Legal Developments


1. Historical Perspectives on Law, Sexual Intimacy and Capacity - Ralph Sandland


2. Sexual Capacity: Are There Questions the Law Should Not Ask? - Alex Ruck Keene, Allegra Enefer and Alan Cusack


3. Capacity to Consent to Sex in the Civil and Criminal Law: Blurring the Boundaries - Jaime Lindsey and Karen Brennan


4. Reflections from Practice: The Practicalities of Assessing Sexual Mental Capacity - Claire Bates


PART II: The Law in Practice


5. Where Is the Love? Promoting a Rights- based, Personcentred and Relational Approach to Social Work Practice - Becky Squires and Hannah Morgan


6. Promoting Human Rights around Intimacy for People Living with Dementia: A Psychiatric Perspective - Oluwatoyin Sorinmade and Carmelle Peisah


7. "I just felt that I was somebody who was there to be abused": A Sociological Analysis of Structural Causes for Delayed Naming of Sexual Violence at the Intersection of Disability and Gender - Andrea Hollomotz


8. Reflections from Practice: The Legal Labyrinth of Sexual Capacity - Balancing Rights with Risks - Lorraine Currie and Neil Allen


Conclusion - Beverley Clough and Laura Pritchard-Jones