Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

Fri 4 SepPAPER

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DESCRIPTIVE, NOT CATEGORICAL: HOW COURT QUESTIONS SHAPE FUNCTIONAL EXPERT CONCLUSIONS IN ADULT CAPACITY CASES.

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It gives a concrete taxonomy of what courts actually ask capacity examiners and a defensible argument, backed by domestic appellate criticism and international disability-rights standards, for answering descriptively rather than with a global capacity verdict — useful to anyone drafting or receiving capacity referrals. But it is a two-region Czech document analysis with no binding effect and no evidence of downstream impact, so it changes no obligation and undermines no established assessment method.

Int J Law Psychiatry. 2026;108:102249.