Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy

Beverley Clough is Professor of Law and Social Justice at Manchester Metropolitan University. Laura Pritchard-Jones is Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele University.

• Foreword by Kirsty Keywood and Margaret FlynnIntroduction - Beverley Clough and Laura Pritchard- JonesPART I: Legal Developments1. Historical Perspectives on Law, Sexual Intimacy and Capacity - Ralph Sandland2. Sexual Capacity: Are There Questions the Law Should Not Ask? - Alex Ruck Keene, Allegra Enefer and Alan Cusack3. Capacity to Consent to Sex in the Civil and Criminal Law: Blurring the Boundaries - Jaime Lindsey and Karen Brennan4. Reflections from Practice: The Practicalities of Assessing Sexual Mental Capacity - Claire BatesPART II: The Law in Practice5. Where Is the Love? Promoting a Rights- based, Personcentred and Relational Approach to Social Work Practice - Becky Squires and Hannah Morgan6. Promoting Human Rights around Intimacy for People Living with Dementia: A Psychiatric Perspective - Oluwatoyin Sorinmade and Carmelle Peisah7. “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 Hollomotz8. Reflections from Practice: The Legal Labyrinth of Sexual Capacity – Balancing Rights with Risks - Lorraine Currie and Neil AllenConclusion - Beverley Clough and Laura Pritchard-Jones

“This is a timely and important book on an under-researched subject which raises profound questions regarding the interplay between autonomy and protection and criminal and civil law.” Mary Donnelly, University College Cork