In practice, special considerations arise only with respect to minors and mentally incapacitated persons.
Photographs of mentally incapacitated children were juxtaposed with those of healthy children.
A Court of Protection exists to defend elderly or mentally incapacitated people, but it is not widely known.
This allows personal representatives to invest on behalf of mentally incapacitated people in Scotland.
If the Law Commission avoids creating similar pitfalls for medical treatment, it can only be in the mentally incapacitated patient's best interests.
Second theory, he's mentally incapacitated- hence his love of repeating the same message over and over again.
The proposed legislation concerns personal and financial substitute decision-making for mentally incapacitated adults.
But if the other person did know or should have known, then the mentally incapacitated individual may no longer have agreements for non-necessaries enforced upon them.
The second, less pleasing image is of a physically and mentally incapacitated being whose life is over even though the heart continues meaninglessly to beat.
He also handled smaller, highly emotional cases where vulnerable, elderly or mentally incapacitated victims were preyed upon for their money.