Publications
Selected events in the development of long-term project to achieve fully inclusive, rights-based laws and legal systems
1986: Proposed review of incapacity and mental health law to Scottish Law Commission
1986-2000: Revival and development of tutors to adults, including instructing Morris (1986) and Britton (1992) cases
1990: Addressed conference of UK Social Work Directors: referred to previous decade’s focus on child protection, proposed that focus in forthcoming decade should be upon protection of vulnerable adults: generally accepted
1994: Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, adviser to mental health law project
1995: Keynote speaker at “Consensus for Change?” conference, leading to review of mental health law
1999: Assisted Eric Clarke MP, successful private member’s bill to amend Mental Health Act
2004: Keynote speaker at Robert Bosch Foundation conference (Germany) of all German NGOs active in countries of central, eastern and south eastern Europe
2007: Advised five Nordic nations on introduction of powers of attorney for incapacity
2010/2012/2014: British representative (and then honorary guest) at Regensburg Symposium (on European private law)
2016: Keynote speaker, opening plenary session, World Adult Guardianship Congress (Germany)
2016: As representative of Council of Europe, speaker at plenary session of Alzheimer Europe Conference, Copenhagen
2017: Keynote speaker World Family Law Congress, Amsterdam
2017: Plenary speaker, international conference, Coimbra, Portugal
2018: Plenary speaker, international conference, Madrid, Spain
2017-2018: Assisting South Korea with planning of 5th World Congress on Adult Guardianship (will be speaker at 2 plenary sessions, moderator of two sessions)
2018: Workshops for Asian countries in Seoul, Korea
2018: Assisting with planning of joint European Commission/Hague Conference conference in Brussels (will be speaker)
1984: “Scots Law and the Mentally Handicapped”, published by SSMH, ISBN 0 9506697 2 5
1990: “The Power to Act”, published by SSMH, ISBN 0-9506697-7-6
1993: English-language version of “A New View”, published by ILSMH, ISBN 2 930078 00 6
Translations published as follows:
1994 – Czech: “Novy Pohled”, ISBN 2 930078 04 9
1995 – Russian: “Noviy Vehglyad”, ISBN 2 930078 06 5 *
1995 – Estonian: “Uutmoodi Vaatenurk”, ISBN 2 930078 05 7 *
1995 – Lithuanian: “Naujas Poziuris”, ISBN 9986899-40-0
– Polish: “Nowe Spojrzenie”, ISBN 2 930078 00 6
* Funded by Clark Foundation (used in at least 30 countries)
2000: Current Law Statutes Annotations to Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
2003: “Adult Incapacity”, published by W. Green (Greens Practice Library), ISBN 0 414 01472 3
2008: “Adults with Incapacity Legislation”, published by W. Green (Greens Essential Legislation), ISBN 978-0-414-01580-7
2018: “Enabling citizens to plan for incapacity” (Council of Europe)
1992: “Mental Handicap and the Law”, Sweet & Maxwell, ISBN 0-421-42000-6
1993: “The Legal Rights of people with Disabilities” (published by Castlemilk Law Society and SSMH)
2001: “Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984 and Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000”, W Green, ISBN 0414 014359
2010 and each year thereafter: “Court of protection Practice”, Jordans
2011: “Vorsorgevollmacht und Erwachsenenschutz in Europa”, Gieseking, ISBN 978-3-7694-1089-1
2013: “Kindesrecht und Elternkonflikt”, Gieseking, ISBN 978-3-7694-1119-5
2015: “International Protection of Adults”, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-872725-5
2015: “Mental Capacity Law & Practice”, 3rd Edition, Jordans, ISBN 978 1 78473 160 1
2016: Three Jurisdictions Report (assessing UK legislation for compliance with UN Disability Convention)
2018: Booklet for British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
2018: Judicial Training: Access to Justice for People with Disabilities
2018: “Mental Capacity Law & Practice”, 4th Edition, Jordans, ISBN 978 1784 734060