Mental Capacity Law, Sexual Relationships, and Intimacy

Beverley Clough is Professor of Law and Social Justice at Manchester Metropolitan University. Laura Pritchard-Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele University.

Foreword – Dr Margaret Flynn and Kirsty Keywood
Introduction – Dr Beverley Clough and Dr Laura Pritchard-Jones
Part I: Legal and Policy Trajectories
1. Historical Perspectives on the Legal Regulation of Sexual Relationships and Intimacy by Reference to Mental Capacity – Professor Ralph Sandland
2. Capacity and sexual consent - a question should never have been asked? – Alex Ruck Keene, Allegra Enefer and Alan Cusack
3. Capacity to Consent to Sex: Analysing the Boundaries Between Civil and Criminal Law – Dr Jaime Lindsey and Dr Karen Brennan
4. Reflections – Claire Bates
Part II: Challenges in Practice and Future Directions
5. Where is the love? Promoting a person-centred, relational and rights-based approach to social work practice in the context of mental capacity, sexual relationships and intimacy – Dr Hannah Morgan & Becky Squires
6. “I just felt that I was just somebody who was there to be abused”: Disabled rape victim-survivors talk about their journeys towards realisation – Dr Andrea Hollomotz & Leah Burch
7. Dementia, Sexuality, and the Law – Dr Oluwatoyin Sorinmade and Carmelle Peisah
8. Nifty Shades of Grey – Neil Allen
9. Reflections – Lorraine Currie
Conclusions – Dr Beverley Clough and Dr Laura Pritchard-Jones