Intellectual Disability in UK Law
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Re SA (Vulnerable Adult with Capacity: Marriage)
... ... The local authority's appraisal is that she functions at the intellectual level of a 13 or 14 year old and has a reading age of about 7 or 8 ... be in the borderline range of ability rather than the learning disability range. He undertook no formal assessment of SA's verbal IQ but felt that ... ...
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Re J (A Minor) (Wardship: Medical Treatment)
... ... It is highly unlikely that he will develop even limited intellectual abilities. Most unfortunately of all, there is a likelihood that he will ... no question of approving, even in a case of the most horrendous disability, a course aimed at terminating life or accelerating death. The court is ... ...
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Luton Borough Council (Applicant) SB (1st Respondent) RS (by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor) (2nd Respondent)
... ... in this case with RS who is 25 years of age and who has intellectual disability and autism spectrum disorder. These challenges have led to RS ... ...
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Pitman v The State (Trinidad and Tobago); Hernandez v The State (Trinidad and Tobago)
... ... 12 Dr Bramham had measured Pitman's intellectual functioning in June 2006 using the standard Wechsler Adult Intelligence ... 67, the highest offered, was a measure of significant learning disability. As the Court of Appeal described it, a level below 70 is definitely ... ...
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Brown v The State
... ... concluded that the appellant was suffering from a mild learning disability—that is a mental disorder in the form of significantly impaired ... consistent with someone who had a measurable degree of intellectual impairment in the learning disability range. In the opinion of Dr Latham, ... ...
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Dr Cathy Gardner v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
... ... Campeanu was a case relating to a young adult with profound intellectual disability (an IQ of 30) who suffered from HIV. He was put in a series of ... ...
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R (on the application of Maguire) v HM Senior Coroner for Blackpool & Fylde and another
Breach of the operational duty. Lack of mental capacity in relation. Care home. Procedural obligation... ... to the person's special needs resulting from his or her disability. The same applies to persons who are placed involuntarily in psychiatric ... for Legal Resources concerned a young man with profound intellectual disability who was also HIV-positive. After he left a state orphanage in ... ...
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R v C
... ... is unable to communicate her choice to A because of a "physical disability", and A does not reasonably believe that she consents, then A is guilty of ... with Dr Picchoni, her learning disability and impaired intellectual functioning, and highly aroused state, she would not have had the ability ... ...
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R (Lucinda Vowles) v Secretary of State for Justice and Another
... ... was that Barnes: "suffered from both a learning disability and a dissocial personality disorder when sentenced in 2007; indeed both ... psychiatrist at the Prestwich Hospital, thought his range of intellectual impairments and the level of his functioning seemed to border on the ... ...
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Heidi Crowter v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
... ... with DS have a third copy of chromosome 21, which leads to intellectual and physical disability. There can be a range of severity, from mild cases ... ...
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