Mental capacity: How is it assessed?

What do doctors, lawyers and their clients need to know about judging whether people have the mental capacity to make decisions? Barrister Alison Douglass has produced a guide to assist legal and medical professionals to help future proof the lives of people with dementia, brain injury, mental health problems and learning disabilities. It comes ahead of moves to reform the Protection of Personal and Property Rights Act, also known as the triple P law, which is three decades old.