Comparative Private Law and Civil Procedural Law dealing with vulnerable adults

Specialised section part of Ravel – Repository on the International Protection of Adults

Please, consider that this page includes domestic sources of law and related bibliography and/or websites, as well as documents submitted and published since a specific State is party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.

States
1. Africa
  Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sudan, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia
2. America
  Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela
3. Asia
  Afghanistan, Armenia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Maldives, Myanmar, Mongolia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, State of Palestine, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam
4. Europe
  Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom
5. Oceania
  Australia, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Palau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
6. Transcontinental States
  Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkey
General bibliography
NGOs and civil society initiatives
General useful links

States

1. Africa

Algeria 🇩🇿

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2012 – Algeria, 2 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DZA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Algeria, 27 June 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DZA/CO/1.

Angola 🇦🇴

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Angola under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2016, 15 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AGO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Angola, 12 April 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AGO/CO/1.

Benin 🇧🇯

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Benin under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 7 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BEN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Benin, 23 September 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BEN/CO/1.

Botswana 🇧🇼

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Botswana under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2025, 11 December 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BWA/1.

Bibliography

Jimcall Pfumorodze and Charles Fombad, ‘Protecting the disabled in Botswana: An anomalous case of legislative neglect’ in Ilze Grobbelaar-du Plessis and Tobias van Reenen (eds), Aspects of disability law in Africa (Pretoria University Law Press 2012), 85-106.

Burkina Faso 🇧🇫

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Burkina Faso under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2011, 23 April 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BFA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Burkina Faso, 30 September 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BFA/CO/1.

Chad 🇹🇩

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Rapport initiaux soumis par le Tchad en application de l’article 35 de la Convention, attendu en 2021, 4 April 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TCD/1.

Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Rapport initial soumis par la République démocratique du Congo en application de l’article 35 de la Convention, attendu en 2017, 22 May 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/COD/1

Djibouti 🇩🇯

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Djibouti under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 11 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DJI/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Djibouti, 14 September 2021, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DJI/CO/1.

Egypt 🇪🇬

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Egypt under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2010, 28 July 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/EGY/1.

Bibliography

Tarek Okasha and Nermin Shaker, ‘Egypt: Implementation of the CRPD in Mental Health Care’ in Neeraj Gill and Norman Sartorius (eds), Mental Health and Human Rights. The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (Springer 2024), 105-113.

Ethiopia 🇪🇹

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2012 – Ethiopia, 19 March 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ETH/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Ethiopia, 4 November 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ETH/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third reports submitted by Ethiopia under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2020, 9 January 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ETH/2-3.

Gabon 🇬🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2009 – Gabon, 14 July 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GAB/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Gabon, 2 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GAB/CO/1.

Ghana 🇬🇭

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Ghana under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 8 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GHA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Ghana, 2 October 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GHA/CO/1.

Kenya 🇰🇪

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of State parties due in 2010 – Kenya, 28 July 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KEN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Kenya, 30 September 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KEN/CO/1.

Liberia 🇱🇷

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Liberia under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 24 April 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LBR/1.

Malawi 🇲🇼

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Combined initial and second periodic reports submitted by Malawi under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2016, 8 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MWI/1-2 (annexes).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined initial and second periodic reports of Malawi, 5 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MWI/CO/1-2.

Mali 🇲🇱

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Mali under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2010, 28 April 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MLI/1.

Mauritania 🇲🇷

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Mauritania under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 12 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MRT/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Mauritania, 4 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MRT/CO/1.

Mauritius 🇲🇺

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of State parties due in 2010 – Mauritius, 11 August 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MUS/1 (annex I, annex II, annex III, annex IV, annex V, annex VI, annex VII, annex VIII, annex IX, annex X, annex XI, annex XII).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Mauritius, 30 September 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MUS/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Mauritius, 7 October 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MUS/CO/2-3.

Morocco 🇲🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Morocco, 9 September 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MAR/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Morocco, 25 September 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MAR/CO/1.

Mozambique 🇲🇿

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Mozambique under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 29 June 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MOZ/1.

Namibia 🇳🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Namibia under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2010, 16 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NAM/1.

Niger 🇳🇪

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by the Niger under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2010, 4 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NER/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Niger, 1 May 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NER/CO/1.

Nigeria 🇳🇬

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Nigeria under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2012, 24 June 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NGA/1.

Bibliography

Edwin Etieyibo and Odirin Omiegbe, ‘Religion, culture, and discrimination against persons with disabilities in Nigeria‘ [2016] 5(1) African Journal of Disability 1-6.

Rwanda 🇷🇼

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of State parties due in 2011 – Rwanda, 23 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/RWA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Rwanda, 3 May 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/RWA/CO/1.

Senegal 🇸🇳

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Senegal under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2012, 27 July 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SEN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Senegal, 13 May 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SEN/CO/1.

Seychelles 🇸🇨

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of State parties due in 2011 – Seychelles, 24 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SYC/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Seychelles, 16 April 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SYC/CO/1.

Sierra Leone 🇸🇱

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Sierra Leone under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2012, 10 October 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SLE/1.

South Africa 🇿🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of State parties due in 2009 – South Africa, 24 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ZAF/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of South Africa, 23 October 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ZAF/CO/1.

Sudan 🇸🇩

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Sudan, 9 September 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SDN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Sudan, 10 April 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SDN/CO/1.

Togo 🇹🇬

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Togo under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2013, 13 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TGO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Togo, 11 April 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TGO/CO/1.

Tunisia 🇹🇳

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial report submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Covenant – Tunisia, 14 July 2010, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TUN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Tunisia, 13 May 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TUN/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Tunisia under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 28 June 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TUN/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Tunisia, 17 April 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TUN/CO/2-3.

Uganda 🇺🇬

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial report of State party due in 2010 – Uganda, 10 March 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/UGA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Uganda, 12 May 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/UGA/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second to fourth reports submitted by Uganda under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2022, 28 March 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/UGA/2-4.

Zambia 🇿🇲

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Zambia under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2012, 19 October 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ZMB/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Zambia, 29 April 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ZMB/CO/1.

2. America

Argentina 🇦🇷

Civil Law

Commercial and Civil Code of 7 October 2014, Law No. 29.994 of October 2014, Official Bulletin of 8 October 2014, Book 1, Title I (Human person)

Civil Procedural Law

Commercial and Civil Code of 7 October 2014, Law No. 29.994 of October 2014, Official Bulletin of 8 October 2014, Book 1, Title I (Human person)

Private International Law

Commercial and Civil Code of 7 October 2014, Law No. 29.994 of October 2014, Official Bulletin of 8 October 2014, Book 6, Title IV (Provision of private international law)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Argentina, 28 June 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ARG/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Argentina as approved by the Committee at its eighth session (17–28 September 2012), 8 October 2012, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ARG/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined 2nd and 3rd periodic reports submitted by Argentina under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 5 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ARG/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Argentina, 7 December 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ARG/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Luciana B Scotti and Leandro Baltar, ‘La protección de adultos: notas desde el Derecho Internacional Privado argentino‘ [2021] 2021(51) Revista Anales de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales. Universidad Nacional de La Plata 427-456.
Alberto Vásquez Encalada, Kimber Bialik and Kaitlin Stober, ‘Supported Decision Making in South America: Analysis of Three Countries’ Experiences‘ [2021] 18(10) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 5204 ss.

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Argentina Country report (2016)

Bolivia 🇧🇴

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Plurinational State of Bolivia, 28 September 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BOL/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, 4 November 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BOL/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Informes periódicos segundo a cuarto combinados que el Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia debía presentar en 2023 en virtud del artículo 35 de la Convención con arreglo al procedimiento facultativo de presentación de informes, 14 December 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BOL/2-4.

Brazil 🇧🇷

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2010 – Brazil, 14 July 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BRA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Brazil, 29 September 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BRA/CO/1.

Bibliography

Diogo L Cordeiro Rodrigues and Igor P Gomes da Costa, ‘The Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults: Overview and Convergence with the Brazilian Law’ [2020] 11(20) Caderno de Relacões Internacionais 101-132.
Adrian Ward and others, ‘Brazil’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 450-456. 🔒

Canada 🇨🇦

Civil Law

Civil Code of Québec, Articles 2166 ss.

Private International Law

Civil Code of Québec, LRQ, cC-1991, Book 10, Title One (Private international law)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2012 – Canada, 7 July 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CAN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Canada, 8 May 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CAN/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Canada under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2020, 27 June 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CAN/2-3 (annex).

Bibliography

Michael Bach and Lana Kerzner, ‘A new paradigm for protecting autonomy and the right to legal capacity. Advancing Substantive Equality for Persons with Disabilities through Law, Policy and Practice‘ (October 2010) Law Commission of Ontario.
Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies and British Columbia Law Institute, ‘A Comparative analysis of Adult Guardianship in BC, New Zealand and Ontario‘ (2006).
Ruby Dhand, ‘Indigenous Peoples With Disabilities and Canadian Mental Capacity Law’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 100-119. 🔒
Robert M Gordon and Ann M Soden, ‘The Guardianship of Incapable Adults and Their Property in Canada’ in A Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 109-122.
Steven J Hoffman, Lathika Sritharan and Ali Tejpar, ‘Is the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Impacting Mental Health Laws and Policies in High-Income Countries? A Case Study of Implementation in Canada‘ [2016] 16(1) BMC International Health and Human Rights 28.
Samuel Law, Vicky Stergiopoulos, Juveria Zaheer and Arash Nakhost, ‘”It feels terrible that people are making decisions for me”: Reflections and experiences of individuals with psychiatric disability who have substitute decision makers for treatment’ [2024] 47(2) Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal 117-128. 🔒
Brigitte Lefebvre, ‘Le mandat donné en prévision de l’inaptitude: vingt-cinq ans d’expérience québécoise’ in Nicole Gallus (ed), La protection des incapables majeurs et le droit du mandat (Anthemis 2014), 165-180.
Alex Ruck Keene and Jaël Marques de Souza, ‘Canada – Ontario’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 485-494. 🔒
Alex Ruck Keene and QC Alison Scott Butler, ‘Canada – Nova Scotia’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 476-484. 🔒
Anne Saris, ‘L’évaluation des capacités au Canada anglais’ in Benoît Eyraud, Julie Minoc, Cécile Hanon (eds), Choisir et agir pour autrui ?: Controverse autour de la Convention de l’ONU relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (Doin 2018), 114-118.
Tim Stainton, ‘Supported decision-making in Canada: principles, policy, and practice’ [2015] 3(1) Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 1-11.
Claire van Overdijk and Barb Martini, ‘Canada – Alberta’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 457-465. 🔒
‘Canada – British Columbia’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015). 🔒
Adrian Ward and Ron Kruzeniski, ‘Canada – Saskatchewan’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 466-475. 🔒

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Canada Country report (2012)
Supported decision-making: Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act (Alberta): summary and 2024 update

Chile 🇨🇱

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2010 – Chile, 10 September 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHL/1 (annex 1, annex 2, annex 3, annex 4, annex 5, annex 6, annex 7, annex 8).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Chile, 13 April 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHL/CO/1.

Bibliography

Gissella López Rivera, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Chile’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 112-131.

Colombia 🇨🇴

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2013 – Colombia, 14 July 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/COL/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Colombia, 30 September 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/COL/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second to fourth periodic reports submitted by Colombia under article 35 of the Convention, 10 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/COL/2-4 (annex).

Bibliography

Alberto Vásquez Encalada, Kimber Bialik and Kaitlin Stober, ‘Supported Decision Making in South America: Analysis of Three Countries’ Experiences‘ [2021] 18(10) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 5204.

Costa Rica 🇨🇷

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Costa Rica, 18 February 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CRI/1.
CRPD Committe, Concluding observations on the initial report of Costa Rica, 12 May 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CRI/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Costa Rica under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 25 July 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CRI/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Costa Rica, 23 April 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CRI/CO/2-3.

Cuba 🇨🇺

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2009 – Cuba, 10 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CUB/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Cuba, 10 May 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CUB/CO/1.

Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Private International Law

Ley No. 54414 sobre Derecho Internacional Privado de la República Dominicana. G.O. 10787 de 18 de diciembre de 2014 – Art. 15, par. 2: jurisdiction; Section II (Protection measures, applicable Law) Art. 54: protection of adults; Art. 67: conditions for invocation of absence of legal capacity for invalidating a contract.

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties in accordance with article 35 of the Convention – Dominican Republic, 4 July 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DOM/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Dominican Republic, 8 May 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DOM/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Informes periódicos segundo y tercero combinados que la República Dominicana debía presentar en 2019 en virtud del artículo 35 de la Convención con arreglo al procedimiento facultativo de presentación de informes, 30 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DOM/2-3.

Ecuador 🇪🇨

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Examen de los informes presentados por los Estados partes en virtud del artículo 35 de la Convención – Informes iniciales que los Estados partes debían presentaren 2008 – Ecuador, 5 June 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ECU/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Ecuador, 27 October 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ECU/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Ecuador under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 13 February 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ECU/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Ecuador, 21 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ECU/CO/2-3.

El Salvador 🇸🇻

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – El Salvador, 10 October 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SLV/1 (annex).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of El Salvador, adopted by the Committee at its tenth session (2–13 September 2013), 8 October 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SLV/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by El Salvador under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 1 February 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SLV/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of El Salvador, 1 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SLV/CO/2-3.

Guatemala 🇬🇹

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Guatemala, 3 July 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GTM/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Guatemala, 30 September 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GTM/CO/1.

Haiti 🇭🇹

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Haiti, 22 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HTI/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Haiti, 13 April 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HTI/CO/1.

Honduras 🇭🇳

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2010 – Honduras, 8 July 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HND/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Honduras, 4 May 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HND/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Second to fourth periodic reports submitted by Honduras under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2022, 15 November 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HND/2-4.

Jamaica 🇯🇲

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Jamaica underarticle 35 of the Convention, due in 2010, 28 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/JAM/1/Rev.1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Jamaica, 20 May 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/JAM/CO/1.

Mexico 🇲🇽

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties in accordance with article 35 of the Convention – Mexico, 7 February 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MEX/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Mexico, 27 October 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MEX/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Mexico under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 19 July 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MEX/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Mexico, 20 April 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MEX/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Nicolás Martínez-López and Marlen Abigain Gómez-Mendiola, ‘Mexico/Latin America: Mental Health and Human Rights’ in Neeraj Gill and Norman Sartorius (eds), Mental Health and Human Rights. The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (Springer 2024), 141-151.

Nicaragua 🇳🇮

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Nicaragua under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2009, 20 July 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NIC/1.
CRPD Committee, Second periodic report submitted by Nicaragua under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2013, 21 July 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NIC/2.
CRPD Committee, Third periodic report submitted by Nicaragua under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2017, 21 July 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NIC/3.
CRPD Committee, Observaciones finales sobre los informes periódicos inicial a tercero combinados de Nicaragua, 22 March 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NIC/CO/1-3.

Panama 🇵🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2009 – Panama, 21 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PAN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Panama, 29 September 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PAN/CO/1.

Paraguay 🇵🇾

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Paraguay, 28 June 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PRY/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Paraguay, adopted by the Committee at its ninth session, 15–19 April 2013, 15 May 2013, UN Doc.
CRPD/C/PRY/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Paraguay, 17 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PRY/CO/2-3.

Peru 🇵🇪

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Peru, 12 January 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PER/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Peru, 16 May 2012, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PER/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Peru, 29 November 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PER/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

César Edwin Moreno More, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Peru’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 410-423.
Alberto Vásquez Encalada, Kimber Bialik and Kaitlin Stober, ‘Supported Decision Making in South America: Analysis of Three Countries’ Experiences‘ [2021] 18(10) International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 5204 ss.

United States of America 🇺🇸

Civil Law

Cfr. American Bar Association, Voluntary Guardianship Statutes in the USA (2020)
Cfr. American Bar Association, Adult Guardianship Table of Authorities, including links to Federate States’ statutes on guardianship (2021)
Cfr. American Bar Association, Guardianship and Supported Decision-Making in the USA, relevant materials providing for policy and practice guidelines (2021)

Bibliography

A Kimberley Dayton, ‘Guardianship in the U.S.: Themes and Commonalities Across the States’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 231-246.
A Kimberley Dayton, ‘The United States of America’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 397-425. 🔒
Sarah Deer and Colette Routel, ‘Adult Guardianship and Tribal Nations in the U.S.’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 71-82.
Robert Dinerstein, Esmd Grant Grewal and Jonathan Martinis, ‘Emerging International Trends and Practices in Guardianship Law for People with Disabilities‘ [2016] 22(2) ILSA Journal ofInternational & Comparative Law 436-460.
Israel Doron, ‘Elder Guardianship Kaleidoscope – A Comparative Perspective’ [2002] 16(3) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 368-398. 🔒
Israel Doron, ‘From National to International Elder Law’ [2005] 1 The Journal of International Aging, Law and Policy 43-67.
Stephen Latham, ‘US Laws Relating to Decision-Making on Behalf of P’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 85-99. 🔒
Arlene B Mayerson and Silvia Yee, ‘The ADA and Models of Equality’ in Mary Lou Breslin and Silvia Yee (eds), Disability Rights Law and Policy: International and National Perspectives (1st edn Brill Nijhoff 2002), 283-308. 🔒
Marie Mercat-Bruns, ‘L’influence de la Convention sur le droit des (in)capacités aux États-Unis’ in Benoît Eyraud, Julie Minoc, Cécile Hanon (eds), Choisir et agir pour autrui ?: Controverse autour de la Convention de l’ONU relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (Doin 2018), 97-103.
Eric Rosenthal and Arlene Kanter, ‘The Right to Community Integration for People with Disabilities Under United States and International Law’ in Mary Lou Breslin and Silvia Yee (eds), Disability Rights Law and Policy: International and National Perspectives (1st edn Brill Nijhoff 2002), 309-365. 🔒
Alex Ruck Keene and Bette Epstein, ‘USA – California’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 637-644. 🔒
Gary L Stein, ‘Advance Directives and Advance Care Planning for People with Intellectual and Physical Disabilities‘ (2007) U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Erica Wood, Pamela Teaster and Jenica Cassidy, ‘Restoration of Rights in Adult Guardianship. Research and Recommendations‘ (2017) American Bar Association, Commission of Law and Aging with the Virginia Tech Centre for Gerontology.
Patrisha Wright and Jane West, ‘When to Hold ’Em and When to Fold ’Em: Lessons Learned from Enacting the Americans with Disabilities Act’ in Mary Lou Breslin and Silvia Yee (eds), Disability Rights Law and Policy: International and National Perspectives (1st edn Brill Nijhoff 2002), 393-411. 🔒
Silvia Yee and Marilyn Golden, ‘Achieving Accessibility: How the Americans with Disabilities Act Is Changing the Face and Mind of a Nation’ in Mary Lou Breslin and Silvia Yee (eds), Disability Rights Law and Policy: International and National Perspectives (1st edn Brill Nijhoff 2002), 413-460. 🔒

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, United States of America Country report (2016)
DBHDS Supported Decision- Making
disAbility Law Center of Virginia
Disability Rights Nebrasca: website and supported decision-making webpage

Uruguay 🇺🇾

Private International Law

Ley General de Derecho Internacional Privado, promulgada el 17 de noviembre de 2020

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Uruguay, 8 July 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/URY/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Uruguay, 30 September 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/URY/CO/1.

Venezuela 🇻🇪

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial report of States parties due in 2015 – Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 6 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/VEN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 20 May 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/VEN/CO/1.

Bibliography

Patricia Leal Barros, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Venezuela’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 577-599.

3. Asia

Afghanistan 🇦🇫

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Afghanistan under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 15 December 2021, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AFG/1.

Armenia 🇦🇲

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial report of State party due in 2012 – Armenia, 24 March 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ARM/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Armenia, 8 May 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ARM/CO/1.

Bahrain 🇧🇭

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Combined first and second periodic reports submitted by Bahrain under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2013, 3 July 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BHR/1-2.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined initial and second periodic reports of Bahrain, 28 May 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BHR/CO/1-2.

Bangladesh 🇧🇩

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Bangladesh under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2010, 30 August 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BGD/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Bangladesh, 11 October 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BGD/CO/1.

China 🇨🇳

Private International Law

Jurisdiction. Civil Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China, Adopted by the 4th Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress on 9 April 1991, promulgated by the Order No 44 of the President of the People’s Republic of China, Part One (General Provisions), Chapter II (Jurisdiction); Part Four (Special Stipulations on Civil Procedures Involving Foreign Interests)
Applicable law. Law on the Application of Laws to Civil Relationships Involving a Foreign Element of the People’s Republic of China, Adopted at the 17th Session of the Standing Committee of the Eleventh National People’s Congress on 28 October 2010
Recognition and enforcement. Civil Procedure Law of the People’s Republic of China, Adopted by the 4th Session of the Seventh National People’s Congress on 9 April 1991, promulgated by the Order No 44 of the President of the People’s Republic of China, Part One (General Provisions), Chapter II (Jurisdiction), Part Four (Special Stipulations on Civil Procedures Involving Foreign Interests)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States Parties under article 35 of the Convention – China, 8 February 2011, CRPD/C/CHN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of China, adopted by the Committee at its eighth session (17–28 September 2012), 15 October 2012, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHN/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of China, adopted by the Committee at its eighth session (17–28 September 2012), 14 November 2012, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHN/CO/1/Corr.1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by China under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 19 June 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHN/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of China, 10 October 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHN/CO/2-3 (it includes also Hong Kong and Macao).
CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Hong Kong, China, 11 February 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHN-HKG/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Hong Kong, China under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 26 June 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHN-HKG/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Macao, China, 8 February 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHN-MAC/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Macao, China under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 26 June 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHN-MAC/2-3.

Bibliography

Cora Chan and Rebecca Lee, ‘Adult Guardianship Law in China: Traditional Values and Modern International Developments’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 123-136.
Bo Chen and Hao Yao, ‘Restrictive measure reduction in psychiatric wards: A snapshot of China’s mental health law reform under the new era of disability rights convention’ [2024] 93 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 101970. 🔒
Daisy Cheung, ‘Values and Participation of Individuals Without Mental Capacity in Hong Kong‘ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 162-181.
Richard Frimston and John Budge, ‘Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 534-540. 🔒
Richard Frimston and others, ‘People’s Republic of China’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 500-508. 🔒
Qisheng He, ‘Changes to Habitual Residence in China’s lex personalis’ [2013] 2012/2013(14) Yearbook of Private International Law 323-339. 🔒
Yi Huang and Bo Chen, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in China’s Mainland’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 132-139.
Shaoling Zhong and Xiaoping Wang, ‘China: The Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Mental Health Services’ in Neeraj Gill and Norman Sartorius (eds), Mental Health and Human Rights. The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (Springer 2024), 93-103.

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, China Country report (2012)

Democratic People’s Republic of Korea 🇰🇵

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 10 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PRK/1 (annex).

India 🇮🇳

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by India under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2011, 6 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/IND/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of India, 29 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/IND/CO/1.

Bibliography

Syed Ashfaq Hussain and Shaik Nazim Ahmed Shafi, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in India’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 267-296.
Brendan D Kelly, ‘Multi-level protection of rights: India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 and the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Articles 12 and 14)‘ [2023] 91 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 101937.
Soumitra Pathare and Arjun Kapoor, ‘Enabling Supported Decision-Making in India’s Mental Healthcare Act, 2017: Learnings from a Low-Resource Country Setting’ in Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu (eds), Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (Hart Publishing 2022), 135-156.

Indonesia 🇮🇩

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Indonesia under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2013, 8 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/IDN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Indonesia, 12 October 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/IDN/CO/1.

Iran 🇮🇷

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Islamic Republic of Iran, 8 July 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/IRN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 10 May 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/IRN/CO/1.

Iraq 🇮🇶

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Iraq under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2010, 23 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/IRQ/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Iraq, 23 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/IRQ/CO/1.

Israel 🇮🇱

Civil Law

Legal Capacity and Guardianship Law 57722-1962, last amended by Amendment No. 18 (continuing power of attorney, preliminary instructions and various provisions) of 11 April 2017

Private International Law

Legal Capacity and Guardianship Law 57722-1962, para 77 (private international law – applicable law); explanation
Foreign Judgments Enforcement Law 5718-1958
Civil Procedure Rules, Chapter 27 (Enforcement of foreign judgments)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Israel under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 8 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ISR/1 (annex I, annex II).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Israel, 9 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ISR/CO/1.

Bibliography

Israel Doron, ‘Elder Guardianship Kaleidoscope – A Comparative Perspective’ [2002] 16(3) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 368-398. 🔒
Israel Doron and Yael Waksman, ‘Elder Guardianship in Israel’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 153-166.
Roni Holler, Shirli Werner, Yotam Tolub and Miriam Pomerantz, ‘Choice Within the Israeli Welfare State: Lessons Learned from Legal Capacity and Housing Services’ in Roger J Stancliffe, Michael L Wehmeyer, Karrie A Shogren and Brian H Abery (eds), Choice, Preference, and Disability. Promoting Self-Determination Across the Lifespan (Springer 2020), 87-110.

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Israel Country report (2012)

Japan 🇯🇵

Private International Law

Code of Civil Procedure, Act No. 109 of 26 June 1996 (jurisdiction)
Act on the General Rules of Application of Law, Act No. 78 of 2006, entered into force on 1 January 2007 (applicable law)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Japan under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2016, 4 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/JPN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Japan, 7 October 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/JPN/CO/1.

Bibliography

Makoto Arai, ‘Guardianship in Japan Under the Adult Guardianship Law of 2000’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 167-180.
Israel Doron, ‘Elder Guardianship Kaleidoscope – A Comparative Perspective’ [2002] 16(3) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 368-398. 🔒
Toru Morichi and Sieh-chuen Huang, ‘Supported decision-making for persons with intellectual disabilities in Japan and Taiwan: a survey of social workers’ and adult guardians’ awareness of supported decision-making‘ [2022] 70(1) International Journal of Developmental Disabilities 137-147.
Adrian Ward and others, ‘Japan’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 554-559. 🔒

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Japan Country report (2016)
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Guidelines for supported decision-making for the provision of welfare services for persons with disabilities (2017) available in Japanese only

Jordan 🇯🇴

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2010 – Jordan, 1 September 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/JOR/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Jordan, 15 May 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/JOR/CO/1.

Kuwait 🇰🇼

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial reports submitted by Kuwait under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2015, 23 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KWT/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Kuwait, 18 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KWT/CO/1.

Bibliography

Anadel Al Matar, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Kuwait’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 327-338.

Lao People’s Democratic Republic 🇱🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by the Lao People’s Democratic Republic under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2011, 6 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LAO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, 30 September 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LAO/CO/1.

Maldives 🇲🇻

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Maldives under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2012, 7 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MDV/1.

Myanmar 🇲🇲

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Myanmar under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 6 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MMR/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Myanmar, 22 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MMR/CO/1.

Mongolia 🇲🇳

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Mongolia, 3 July 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MNG/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Mongolia, 13 May 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MNG/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined 2nd and 3rd periodic reports submitted by Mongolia under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2019, 23 July 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MNG/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Mongolia, 5 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MNG/CO/2-3.

Nepal 🇳🇵

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2012 – Nepal, 11 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NPL/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Nepal, 16 April 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NPL/CO/1.

Oman 🇴🇲

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Oman, 26 January 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/OMN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Oman, 17 April 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/OMN/CO/1.

Pakistan 🇵🇰

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Pakistan under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2013, 15 October 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PAK/1.

Philippines 🇵🇭

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial report of State parties due in 2010 – The Philippines, 3 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PHL/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Philippines, 16 October 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PHL/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third reports submitted by the Philippines under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2022, 17 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PHL/2-3.

Qatar 🇶🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2010 – Qatar, 9 July 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/QAT/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Qatar, 2 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/QAT/CO/1.

Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2010 – Saudi Arabia, 16 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SAU/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Saudi Arabia, 13 May 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SAU/CO/1.

Singapore 🇸🇬

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Singapore under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2015, 16 November 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SGP/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Singapore, 5 October 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SGP/CO/1.

Bibliography

Yue-En Chong, ‘Asian Values and Confucianism: How P’s Ability To Participate in Court Proceedings in Singapore Is Influenced by P’s Cultural Milieu’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 182-202. 🔒
Hillary Chua, Camillia Kong and Michael Dunn, ‘The two lives of the Mental Capacity Act: rethinking East-west binaries in comparative analysis‘ [2024] Medical Law Review 1-22.
Allen Sng Kiat Peng, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Singapore’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 424-465.
Claire van Overdijk and Terence Seah, ‘Singapore’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults (Oxford University Press 2015), 604-611. 🔒

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Singapore Country report (2016)

South Korea 🇰🇷

Civil Law

Act No. 10429, March 7, 2011 which amended the Civil Act (Act No. 19098, Dec. 27, 2022) chapter II Persons – section 1 Capacity.

Private International Law

Law Amending the Conflict of Laws Act of the Republic of Korea, Law No. 6465, promulgated on 7 April 2001, entered into force on 1 July 2001

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Republic of Korea, 27 February 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KOR/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Republic of Korea, 29 October 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KOR/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by the Republic of Korea under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2019, 11 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KOR/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of the Republic of Korea, 6 October 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KOR/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Je Cheol Ung, ‘Korean Guardianship’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 191-206.

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, South Korea Country report (2016)

Sri Lanka 🇱🇰

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Sri Lanka under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 13 September 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LKA/1 (annexes).

State of Palestine 🇵🇸

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by the State of Palestine under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2016, 1 November 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PSE/1 (annex 1, annex 2).

Taiwan 🇹🇼

Bibliography

Toru Morichi and Sieh-chuen Huang, ‘Supported decision-making for persons with intellectual disabilities in Japan and Taiwan: a survey of social workers’ and adult guardians’ awareness of supported decision-making‘ [2022] 70(1) International Journal of Developmental Disabilities 137-147.

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Taiwan Country report (2016)

Thailand 🇹🇭

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2010 – Thailand, 30 January 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/THA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Thailand, 12 May 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/THA/CO/1.

Turkmenistan 🇹🇲

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Turkmenistan, 3 July 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TKM/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Turkmenistan, 13 May 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TKM/CO/1.

United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2012 – United Arab Emirates, 31 December 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ARE/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the United Arab Emirates, 3 October 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ARE/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third reports submitted by the United Arab Emirates under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2023, 12 February 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ARE/2-3.

Uzbekistan 🇺🇿

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Uzbekistan under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2023, 1 August 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/UZB/1 (annex 1, annex 2, annex 3, annex 4, annex 5).

Vietnam 🇻🇳

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Viet Nam under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 6 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/VNM/1 (annexes).

4. Europe

Albania 🇦🇱

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Albania under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 3 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ALB/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Albania, 14 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ALB/CO/1.

Andorra 🇦🇩

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Andorra under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2016, 6 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AND/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Andorra, 9 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AND/CO/1.

Austria 🇦🇹

Civil Law

ABGB, Civil Code, paras. 260-263, on voluntary precautionary powers (Vorsorgevollmacht)
Federal Law 59/2017, Second Adult Protection Act (Erwachsenenschutzgesetz), entered into force on 1 July 2018. See also the explanation issued by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Constitutional Affairs, Reforms, Deregulation and Justice

Private International Law

Austria is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)
Federal Statute of 15 June 1978 of Private International Law, Official Journal No. 304/1978, last amended by Official Journal No. I 158/2013

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Austria, 10 October 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AUT/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Austria, adopted by the Committee at its tenth session (2–13 September 2013), 30 September 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AUT/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third reports submitted by Austria under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2018, 11 May 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AUT/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Austria, 28 September 2023, CRPD/C/AUT/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Igor Adamczyk and Jakob Fortunat Stagl, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Austria’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 67-86.
Peter Barth and Michael Ganner (eds), Handbuch des Erwachsenenschutzrechts (3rd edn, Linde 2019).
Astrid Deixler-Hübner and Martin Schauer, Handbuch Erwachsenenschutzrecht (Manz 2018).
Alice Perscha and Richard Frimston, ‘Austria’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 325-338. 🔒
Marianne Roth and Ingeborg Mottl, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Austria‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Jan von Hein, ‘Erwachsenenschutz im deutsch-österreichischen Verhältnis’ in Thomas Garber (ed), Festschrift Matthias Neumayr (Manz Verlag 2023), 793-803.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Austria
International Guardianship Network, Austria Country report (2016)

Belarus 🇧🇾

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Belarus under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 10 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BLR/1 (annexes).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Belarus, 26 September 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BLR/CO/1.

Belgium 🇧🇪

Civil Law

Civil code, Livre I (Des personnes), arts. 1-515.

Private International Law

Belgium is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)
Loi de mise en œuvre de la Convention de la Haye du 13 du janvier 2000 sur la protection international des adultes, de 10 mars 2019, entrée en vigueur le 1 janvier 2020

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Belgium, 13 March 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BEL/1 (annex).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Belgium, 28 October 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BEL/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Belgium under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2019, 16 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BEL/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Belgium, 30 September 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BEL/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Charles-Édouard de Frésart, ‘La nouvelle protection des personnes vulnérables: le point de vue des juges de paix’ in Nicole Gallus (ed), La protection des incapables majeurs et le droit du mandat (Anthemis 2014), 87-154.
Albert Evrard and Clémence Lacour, ‘A European Approach to Developing the Field of Law and Ageing’ in Israel Doron and Ann M Soden (eds), Beyond Elder Law: New Directions in Law and Ageing (Springer 2012), 149-173.
Nicole Gallus, ‘La loi belge du 17 mars 2013 réformant le régime d’incapacité des majeurs: objectifs et dispositions relatives à la personne’ in Nicole Gallus (ed), La protection des incapables majeurs et le droit du mandat (Anthemis 2014), 7-30.
Frederik Swennen and Tim Wuyts, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Belgium‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Jean-Louis Van Boxstael, ‘L’adulte protégé et la frontière‘ [2014] 2014(2) Revue de planiication patrimoniale belge et internationale 167-186.
Jean-Louis Van Boxstael, ‘La protection internationale des adultes vulnérables – Un an et demi après l’entrée en vigueur de la Convention de La Haye‘ in Patrick Wautelet and Silvia Pfeiff (eds), Droit familial international (Anthemis 2022), 99-147.
Alain-Charles Van Gysel, ‘Vers une meilleure gestion du patrimoine des personnes vulnérables en droit belge? Étude de la responsabilité civile des acteurs du nouveau régime juridique’ in Nicole Gallus (ed), La protection des incapables majeurs et le droit du mandat (Anthemis 2014), 31-50.
Thomas Van Halteren, ‘La protection extrajudiciaire des personnes majeures vulnérables en droit belge’ in Nicole Gallus (ed), La protection des incapables majeurs et le droit du mandat (Anthemis 2014), 51-86.
Claire van Overdijk and Walter Pintens, ‘Belgium’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 442-449. 🔒
François-Joseph Warlet, ‘Évaluation des capacités et classification internationale du fonctionnement: l’exemple de la Belgique’ in Benoît Eyraud, Julie Minoc, Cécile Hanon (eds), Choisir et agir pour autrui ?: Controverse autour de la Convention de l’ONU relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (Doin 2018), 110-113.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Belgium

Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2012 – Bosnia and Herzegovina, 15 April 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BIH/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2 May 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BIH/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Bosnia and Herzegovina under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2020, 29 September 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BIH/2-3 (annex).

Bulgaria 🇧🇬

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of State parties due in 2014 – Bulgaria, 29 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BGR/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Bulgaria, 22 October 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/BGR/CO/1.

Bibliography

Velina Todorova, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Bulgaria‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Bulgaria

Croatia 🇭🇷

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties – Croatia, 7 May 2013, UN Doc.
CRPD/C/HRV/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Croatia, 15 May 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HRV/CO/1.

Bibliography

Aleksandra Korać Graovac and Anica Čulo, ‘Konvencija o pravima osoba s invaliditetom – novi pristup shvaćanju prava osoba s duševnim smetnjama’ [2011] 61(1) Zbornik Pravnog fakulteta u Zagrebu 65-109. 🔒
Nataša Lučić and Branka Rešetar, ‘Advance Directives in Legislative and Theoretical Frameworks of Family Law‘ [2024] 72(2) Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 197-221.
Branka Rešetar and Nataša Lucić, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Croatia‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Adrian Ward and Ivana Milas Klarić, ‘Croatia’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 509-515. 🔒

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Croatia

Cyprus 🇨🇾

Private International Law

Cyprus is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial report of State party due in 2013 – Cyprus, 27 February 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CYP/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Cyprus, 8 May 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CYP/CO/1.

Czech Republic 🇨🇿

Private International Law

Czech Republic is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Czech Republic, 27 June 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CZE/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Czech Republic, 15 May 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CZE/CO/1.

Bibliography

Dita Frintová, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Czech Republic’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 140-166.
David Kittel, ‘Předběžné prohlášení pro případ ztráty schopnosti člověka právně jednat‘ [2018] 2018(1) Časopis Ad Notam 12-19.
Zdeňka Králíčková and Karel Lach, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – The Czech Republic‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Nataša Lučić and Branka Rešetar, ‘Advance Directives in Legislative and Theoretical Frameworks of Family Law‘ [2024] 72(2) Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 197-221.
Josef Mrazek and Adrian Ward, ‘Czech Republic’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 339-345. 🔒
Renáta Tichá, Olha Telna, Jan Šiška, Dušan Klapko and Laurie Kincade, ‘Choices, Preferences, and Disability: A View from Central and Eastern Europe’ in Roger J Stancliffe, Michael L Wehmeyer, Karrie A Shogren and Brian H Abery (eds), Choice, Preference, and Disability. Promoting Self-Determination Across the Lifespan (Springer 2020), 111-132.
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, ‘Comparative Study on the legal systems of the protection of adults lacking legal capacity. National Rules of Private Law, of Private International Law and a Possible Legislative Initiative of the European Union. United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania’ (2008) European Parliament.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Czech Republic
International Guardianship Network, Czech Republic Country report (2016)

Denmark 🇩🇰

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties – Denmark, 7 May 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DNK/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Denmark, 30 October 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DNK/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Denmark under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2019, 23 July 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DNK/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Denmark, 8 October 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DNK/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Ragnhildur Helgadóttir, ‘The UN Convention In Nordic Domestic Law – Lessons Learned From Other Treaties’ in Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir and Gerard Quinn (eds), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: European and Scandinavian Perspectives (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2009), 279-301. 🔒
Sénat français, ‘La protection juridique des majeurs‘ (Comparative Study No. 148 2005).
Claire van Overdijk and Susanne Borch, ‘Denmark’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 516-522. 🔒

Estonia 🇪🇪

Private International Law

Estonia acceded the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel) but has not ratified it yet

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Estonia under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2014, 3 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/EST/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Estonia, 5 May 2021, UN Doc. CRPD/C/EST/CO/1.

Bibliography

Merle Haruoja and others, ‘Estonia’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 346-355. 🔒
Kärt Pormeister, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Estonia’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 167-183.
Triin Uusen-Nacke and Kerdi Raud, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Estonia‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Estonia

Finland 🇫🇮

Private International Law

Finland is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Finland under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 24 April 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/FIN/1 (annex 1, annexes 2-7, annex 8).

Bibliography

Markku Hellin and Claire van Overdijk, ‘Finland’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 356-363. 🔒
Katja Karjalainen, ‘Vanhuus ja kansainvälinen yksityisoikeus: Asuinpaikkaliittymän haasteet’ in Anna P Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen and Liisa Nieminen (eds), Vanhuus ja oikeus (Lakimiesliiton Kustannus 2014), 111-144.
Katja Karjalainen, Ikääntyminen, liikkuvuus ja kansainvälinen yksityisoikeus Euroopassa: Vertaileva tutkimus rajat ylittävistä ongelmista sekä edunvalvonnasta Suomessa ja Espanjassa (Suomalainen lakimiesyhdistys 2016).
Katja Karjalainen, ‘Strengthening the Right to Personal Autonomy and Protection of Vulnerable Adults: from Human Rights to Domestic and European legislation on Voluntary Measures‘ in Katja Karjalainen, Iina Tornberg, Aleksi Pursiainen (eds), International Actors and the Formation of Laws (Springer 2022), 65-88.
Katja Karjalainen, ‘Representation of Vulnerable Adults in Finland in the Light of the CRPD‘ [2024] Family & Law 1-23.
Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, ‘Autonomy of a Person under Guardianship: Self-determination in the Theory and Practice of Guardianship Law in Finland’ in Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu (eds), Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (Hart Publishing 2022), 215-234.
Tuulikki Mikkola, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Republic of Finland’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 184-199.
Sirkka Perttu, Henriikka Laurola and Päivi Helakallio-Ranta, ‘Elder Abuse and the Human Rights Approach—Insights and Experiences from Finland’ in Mala Kapur Shankardass (ed), International Handbook of Elder Abuse and Mistreatment (Springer 2020), 219-235.
Salla Silvola and Anna Mäki-Petäjä-Leinonen, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Finland‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Finland Country report (2012)

France 🇫🇷

Civil Law

Code civil, Livre Ier: Des personnes, Titre XI (De la majorité et des majeurs protégés par la loi), Chapitre II (Des meseures de protection juridique des majeurs), Articles 425-494
Decret n. 2019-756 du 22 juillet 2019, portant diverses dispositions de coordination de la loi n. 2019-222 du 23 mars 2019, pour la justice en matière de protection juridique des majeurs, de changemet de régime matrimonial, d’actes non contentieux confiés aux notaires et de prorogation de l’attribution provisoire de la jouissance du logement de la famille et mesure relative à la reconnaissance transfrontalière des décisions de protection juridique des majeurs; Chapitre Ier (Dispositions relatives à la protection juridique des majeurs)

Civil Procedural Law

Loi n. 2019-222 de 23 mars 2019, de programmation et de réforme pour la justice
Decret n. 2019-756 du 22 juillet 2019, portant diverses dispositions de coordination de la loi n. 2019-222 du 23 mars 2019, pour la justice en matière de protection juridique des majeurs, de changemet de régime matrimonial, d’actes non contentieux confiés aux notaires et de prorogation de l’attribution provisoire de la jouissance du logement de la famille et mesure relative à la reconnaissance transfrontalière des décisions de protection juridique des majeurs

Private International Law

France is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)
Project de loi autorisant la ratification de la convention de La Haye du 13 janvier sur la protection internationale des adultes, rapport n. 434 (2007-2008), aven l’étude d’impact sur le droit international français.
Loi n° 2008-737 du 28 juillet 2008 autorisant la ratification de la convention de La Haye du 13 janvier 2000 sur la protection internationale des adultes
Décret n. 2008-1547 du 30 décembre 2008 portant publication de la convention sur la protection internationale des adultes, faite à La Haye le 13 janvier 2000, signée par la France le 13 juillet 2001

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by France under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2012, 16 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/FRA/1 (annexes).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of France, 4 October 2021, UN Doc. CRPD/C/FRA/CO/1.

Bibliography

Sylwia Castillo-Wyszogrodzka, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in France’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 200-227.
Défenseur des droits, ‘Rapport – Protection juridique des majeurs vulnérables‘ (2016).
Patrick Delas and Richard Frimston, ‘France’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 364-374. 🔒
Albert Evrard and Clémence Lacour, ‘A European Approach to Developing the Field of Law and Ageing’ in Israel Doron and Ann M Soden (eds), Beyond Elder Law: New Directions in Law and Ageing (Springer 2012), 149-173.
Thierry Fossier, Michel Bauer and Emmanuèle Vallas-lenerz, Les tutelles. Accompagnement et protection juridique des majeurs (7th edn ESF éditeur 2016).
Armelle Gosselin-Gorand, ‘Le défi de la protection transfrontière des adultes vulnérables’ (Actu-Juridique.fr, 31 October 2023) <https://www.actu-juridique.fr/international/droit-international-prive/le-defi-de-la-protection-transfrontiere-des-adultes-vulnerables/>.
Cecile Hanon and Benoit Eyraud, ‘France: Psychiatric Care, Human Rights, and the CRPD’ in Neeraj Gill and Norman Sartorius (eds), Mental Health and Human Rights. The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (Springer 2024), 121-128.
Yves Lequette, Protection familiale et protection étatique des incapables (Dalloz 1976).
Mariel Revillard, ‘Mise en œuvre en France d’un mandat d’inaptitude suisse‘ [2021] 2021(3) Revue critique de droit international privé 693-702.
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, ‘Comparative Study on the legal systems of the protection of adults lacking legal capacity. National Rules of Private Law, of Private International Law and a Possible Legislative Initiative of the European Union. United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania’ (2008) European Parliament.
Jean Tarrade, Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Cyril Nourissat, David Noguéro, Mobilité et protection des personnes vulnérables en Europe: connaissance et reconnaissance des instruments (2014) Société́ de Législation Comparée.
Denard Veshi and Gerald Neitzke, ‘Advance Directives in Some Western European Countries: A Legal and Ethical Comparison between Spain, France, England, and Germany’ [2015] 22(4) European Journal of Health Law 321-345. 🔒
Charles Walleit, ‘The Perilous Balance between Legal Protection of Adults and their Fundamental Freedoms: A Comparative Study of the Rights of French and German Guardianship’ in Jacques Colom, Stephanie Rohlfing-Dijoux, and Gotz Schultze (eds), The 50th Anniversary of Mauritius: Constitutional Development (Nomos 2019), 403-416.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in France

Germany 🇩🇪

Private International Law

Germany is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)
Protection of Adults Convention Implementation Act of 17 March 2007, Federal Law Gazette I, p. 314, in the most current version available as last amended by Article 4 of the Act of 17 July 2017 (Federal Law Gazette I, p. 2426)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties – Germany, 7 May 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DEU/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Germany, 13 May 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DEU/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third reports submitted by Germany under article 35 of the Convention, pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2019, 21 December 2021, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DEU/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Germany, 3 October 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/DEU/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Christoph Benicke, ‘EGBGB Annex zu Art. 24’ in Thomas Heidel, Rainer Hüßtege, Heinz-Peter Mansel and Ulrich Noack (eds), NomosKommentar Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (4th edn, Nomos 2021).
Dagmar Brosey, ‘Aide à l’autodétermination et à la protection de l’adulte: un aperçu sur les mesures de “Betreuung” en Allemagne’ in Benoît Eyraud, Julie Minoc, Cécile Hanon (eds), Choisir et agir pour autrui ?: Controverse autour de la Convention de l’ONU relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (Doin 2018), 104-109.
Johanna Croon-Gestefeld, ‘Vorsorgevollmachten in transnationalen Fällen’, in Christine Budzikiewicz, Bettina Heiderhoff, Frank Klinkhammer and Kerstin Niethammer-Jürgens (eds), Vorsorge und Verantwortung im Internationalen Familienrecht (Nomos 2023), 75-102.
Nina Dethloff and Felix Leven, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults. Germany‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Israel Doron, ‘Elder Guardianship Kaleidoscope – A Comparative Perspective’ [2002] 16(3) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 368-398. 🔒
Richard Giesen, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Federal Republic of Germany’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 248-266.
Matilde Girolami, ‘La scelta negoziale nella protezione degli adulti vulnerabili: spunti dalla recente riforma tedesca’ in AAVV (eds), Liber Amicorum per Paolo Zatti. Volume primo (Jovene 2023), 365-386. 🔒
Andreas Heinz, Erik Lukas Bode, Melissa Gül Halil and Sabine Müller, ‘Germany: Human Rights in Psychiatry’ in Neeraj Gill and Norman Sartorius (eds), Mental Health and Human Rights. The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (Springer 2024), 135-139.
Tobias Helms, ‘Reform des internationalen Betreuungsrechts durch das Haager Erwachsenenschutzabkommen’ [2008] 21 Zeitschrift für das gesamte Familienrecht 1995-2002. 🔒
Tanje Henking and Matthé Scholten, ‘Respect for the Will and Preferences of People With Mental Disorders in German Law’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 203-225. 🔒
Erik Jayme, ‘Die Patientenverfügung: Erwachsenenschutz und internationales Privatrecht’ in Jörn Bernreuther (ed), Festschrift für Ulrich Spellenberg (Otto Schmidt/De Gruyter 2010), 203-210.
Perrine Angelika Kobsik, Antizipierte Erklärungen in Gesundheitsangelegenheiten im grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr (Duncker & Humblot 2020).
Volker Lipp and Adrian Ward, ‘Germany’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 375-385. 🔒
Nataša Lučić and Branka Rešetar, ‘Advance Directives in Legislative and Theoretical Frameworks of Family Law‘ [2024] 72(2) Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 197-221.
Ingo Ludwig, ‘Der Erwachsenenschutz im Internationalen Privatrecht nach Inkrafttreten des Haager Erwachsenenschutzübereinkommens’ [2009] DNotZ 251 ss.
Anna-Luisa Lemmerz, Die Patientenverfügung (Mohr Siebeck 2014).
Anna Schwedler, ‘Die Betreuungsrechtsreform’ [2022] Neue Zeitschrift für Familienrecht 1011 ss.
Sénat français, ‘La protection juridique des majeurs‘ (Comparative Study No. 148 2005).
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, ‘Comparative Study on the legal systems of the protection of adults lacking legal capacity. National Rules of Private Law, of Private International Law and a Possible Legislative Initiative of the European Union. United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania’ (2008) European Parliament.
Denard Veshi and Gerald Neitzke, ‘Advance Directives in Some Western European Countries: A Legal and Ethical Comparison between Spain, France, England, and Germany’ [2015] 22(4) European Journal of Health Law 321-345. 🔒
Christian von Bar and Peter Mankowski, Internationales Privatrecht II (2nd edn, C.H. Beck 2019), 927-983.
Jan von Hein, ‘Art 24 EGBGB. Vormundschaft, Betreuung und Pflegschaft’ in Dieter Henrich and Jan von Hein (eds), Artikel 19-24 EGBGB; ErwSÜ: (Internationales Kindschaftsrecht, Erwachsenenschutzübereinkommen) (Sellier–de Gruyter 2019), 510-570.
Jan von Hein, ‘Kollisionsrechtliche Aspekte neuer Formen des Erwachsenenschutzes’ in Christoph Benicke and Stefan Huber (eds), National, International, Transnational: Harmonischer Dreiklang im Recht, Festschrift für Herbert Kronke (Gieseking 2020), 149-160.
Jan von Hein, ‘Erwachsenenschutz im deutsch-österreichischen Verhältnis’ in Thomas Garber (ed), Festschrift Matthias Neumayr (Manz Verlag 2023), 793-803.
Rolf Wagner, ‘Die Regierungsentwürfe zur Ratifikation des Haager Übereinkommens vom 13.1.2000 zum internationalen Schutz Erwachsener’ [2007] 27(1) IPRax: Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts 11-15. 🔒
Rolf Wagner, ‘Neufassung der Art. 7, 15, 17b II und 24 EGBGB durch das Gesetz zur Reform des Betreuungs- und Vormundschaftsrechts’ [2022] 69(6) FamRZ 405-414. 🔒
Charles Walleit, ‘The Perilous Balance between Legal Protection of Adults and their Fundamental Freedoms: A Comparative Study of the Rights of French and German Guardianship’ in Jacques Colom, Stephanie Rohlfing-Dijoux, and Gotz Schultze (eds), The 50th Anniversary of Mauritius: Constitutional Development (Nomos 2019), 403-416.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Germany
International Guardianship Network, Germany Country report (2012)

Greece 🇬🇷

Private International Law

Greece is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by Statesparties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2015 – Greece, 24 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GRC/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Greece, 29 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GRC/CO/1.

Bibliography

Apostolos Tassikas and Vasileios Gioumidis, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Greece‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Claire van Overdijk and others, ‘Greece’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 523-533. 🔒

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Greece
International Guardianship Network, Greece Country report (2012)

Hungary 🇭🇺

Private International Law

Hungarian Private International Law Act (Act XXVIII of 2017), adopted on 11 April 2017, entered into force on 1 January 2018

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Hungary, 28 June 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HUN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial periodic report of Hungary, adopted by the Committee at its eighth session (17‑28 September 2012), 22 October 2012, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HUN/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Hungary under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2018, 7 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HUN/2-3 (annex).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Hungary, 20 May 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/HUN/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Orsolya Szeibert, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Hungary‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Hungary
International Guardianship Network, Hungary Country report (2012)

Iceland 🇮🇸

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Iceland under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 10 May 2021, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ISL/1.

Bibliography

Ragnhildur Helgadóttir, ‘The UN Convention In Nordic Domestic Law – Lessons Learned From Other Treaties’ in Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir and Gerard Quinn (eds), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: European and Scandinavian Perspectives (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2009), 279-302. 🔒
Adrian Ward and Kristin Benediktsdottir, ‘Iceland’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 541-545. 🔒

Ireland 🇮🇪

Civil Law

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 as updated to 25 May 2023; a summary of judgments in application of this act (updated to September 2024) is available here
Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016
Powers of Attorney Act 1996

Civil Procedural Law

Private International Law

Ireland is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)
Ireland included the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults within its national legal system through the revision of Part 11 of the Assisted Decision Making Capacity Act 2015 as updated to 25 May 2023, which accompained the ratification

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial Report of Ireland under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 8 November 2021, UN Doc. CRPD/C/IRL/1 (annex and report on consultation).

Bibliography

Suzanne Doyle and Eilionóir Flynn, ‘Ireland’s ratification of the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities: challenges and opportunities’ [2013] 41(3) British Journal of Learning Disabilities 171-180. 🔒
Mary Donnelly, ‘Judging Values in a Time of Transition: An Irish Perspective’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 65-84. 🔒
Claire Hendrick and Donna Mc Namara, ‘Silenced, Alone, Powerless: My Life as a Ward of Court in Ireland’ in Eilionóir Flynn, Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Clíona de Bhailís and Maria Laura Serra (eds), Global Perspectives on Legal Capacity Reform. Our Voices, Our Stories (Routledge 2019), 61-70.
Mary-Ann O’Donovan, Philip McCallion, Darren McCausland and Mary McCarron, ‘Choice as People Age with Intellectual Disability: An Irish Perspective’ in Roger J Stancliffe, Michael L Wehmeyer, Karrie A Shogren and Brian H Abery (eds), Choice, Preference, and Disability. Promoting Self-Determination Across the Lifespan (Springer 2020), 303-315.
Charles O’Mahony, ‘The reform of Irish mental health law: Aligning with human rights obligations?‘ [2024] 95 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 102004.
Charles O’Mahony and Aisling de Paor, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Ireland’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 297-311.
Gerard Quinn, ‘Bringing the UN Convention on rights for persons with disabilities to life in Ireland’ [2009] 37(4) British Journal of Learning Disabilities 245-249. 🔒
Patricia Rickard-Clarke, ‘Ireland’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults (Oxford University Press 2015), 271-294. 🔒
Geoffrey Shannon and Shauna Colgan, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Ireland‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.

Useful links

https://decisionsupportservice.ie/about-us/legislation

Italy 🇮🇹

Civil Law

Italian Civil Code (articles 404-432)
Law No. 6/2004, introduced Section XII in Book 1 of the Civil Code (articles 404-413 concerning caretaking with residual capacity for the ward, i.e., “amministrazione di sostegno”)

Civil Procedural Law

Italian Code of Civil Procedure, article 75, para. 2 (procedural representation), articles 78-80 (on the appointment of a guardian ad litem)

Private International Law

Law No. 218/1995 on the reform of Italian private international law, specifically articles 43 (law applicable) and 44 (jurisdiction)
Italy has signed the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel) but has not ratified it yet
Proposals of ratification and execution of the 2000 Hague Convention:
- Camera dei Deputati, XVII Legislatura, Disegno di Legge n. 2797 presentato il 23 dicembre 2014, “Ratifica ed esecuzione della Convenzione sulla protezione internazionale degli adulti, fatta all’Aja il 13 gennaio 2000, nonché norme di adeguamento dell’ordinamento interno”
- Senato della Repubblica, XVIII Legislatura, Disegno di Legge n. 2331 di iniziativa dei senatori Pellegrini, Salvini, Iwobi, Lucidi e Vescovi comunicato alla Presidenza il 15 luglio 2021, “Ratifica ed esecuzione della Convenzione sulla protezione internazionale degli adulti, fatta all’Aja il 13 gennaio 2000, nonché norme di adeguamento dell’ordinamento interno”
- Senato della Repubblica, XIX Legislatura, Disegno di Legge n. 223 di iniziativa della senatrice Stefani comunicato alla Presidenza il 24 ottobre 2022, “Ratifica ed esecuzione della Convenzione sulla protezione internazionale degli adulti, fatta all’Aja il 13 gennaio 2000, nonché norme di adeguamento dell’ordinamento interno”
- Senato della Repubblica, XIX Legislatura, Disegno di Legge n. 789 di iniziativa del Ministro degli Affari Esteri, di concerto con il Ministro della Giustizia, il Ministro del Lavoro e delle Politiche Sociali, il Ministro per le Disabilità e il Ministro dell’Economia e delle Finanze, presentato in data 7 luglio 2023, annunciato nella seduta n. 85 del 11 luglio 2023, “Ratifica ed esecuzione della Convenzione sulla protezione internazionale degli adulti, fatta a L’Aja il 13 gennaio 2000, nonché norme di adeguamento dell’ordinamento interno”

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of State parties due in 2011 – Italy, 6 March 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ITA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Italy, 6 October 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ITA/CO/1.

Bibliography

Maria Novella Bugetti, Amministrazione di sostegno: art. 404-413 (Zanichelli 2024). 📚
Claudia M Cascione, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Italy‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Sylwia Castillo-Wyszogrodzka, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Italy’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 312-326.
Maddalena Cinque, ‘Il ruolo del notaio nel testamento pubblico e il problema della capacità naturale dell’”ageing testator”’ [2011] Nuova giurisprudenza civile commentata 1030-1040. 🔒
Maddalena Cinque, ‘Capacità di disporre per testamento e “vulnerabilità” senile’ [2015] 1(2) Diritto delle successioni e della famiglia 361-381. 🔒
Maddalena Cinque, ‘Testamento e “affievolimenti della consapevolezza affettiva”’ [2023] 69(6) Rivista di diritto civile 1239-1256. 🔒
Giorgio Conetti, Sara Tonolo and Fabrizio Vismara, Commento alla riforma del diritto internazionale privato italiano (Giappichelli 2009) [especially pp. 179–185]. 🔒
Christian Crocetta, ‘Persona vulnerabile, soggetto capace. Riflessioni sull’amministrazione di sostegno nel contesto italiano ed europeo’ [2020] 1 DPCE online 71-85.
Elena D’Alessandro, ‘Una ricerca empirica sul funzionamento dell’istituto dell’amministrazione di sostegno, a vent’anni dalla sua entrata in vigore, e sull’impatto pratico che, in punto di protezione degli adulti vulnerabili, sta avendo la recente degiurisdizionalizzazione opzionale operata dalla Riforma Cartabia (Art. 21 Dlgs. 149/2022)‘ [2024] 2024(4) Il diritto processuale civile italiano e comparato 974-1023.
Giulia Donadio, ‘Amministrazione di sostegno e tutela dello straniero’ [2011] 27(9) La Nuova Giurisprudenza Civile 816-820. 🔒
Chiara Favilli, ‘Amministrazione di sostegno e strumenti negoziali nella protezione degli adulti vulnerabili’ in Carlo Granelli (ed), I nuovi orientamenti della Cassazione Civile (Giuffrè 2023), 45-54. 🔒
Alberto Figone, ‘Amministrazione di sostegno e protezione di soggetti stranieri’ [2015] 2015(3) Rivista AIAF – Associazione Italiana degli Avvocati per la famiglia e per i minori 51-53. 🔒
Pietro Franzina, La protezione degli adulti nel diritto internazionale privato (Cedam 2012). 📚
Pietro Franzina, ‘La Convenzione dell’Aja sulla protezione internazionale degli adulti nella prospettiva della ratifica italiana’ [2015] 98 Rivista di diritto internazionale 748-814. 🔒
Pietro Franzina, ‘La disciplina internazionalprivatistica italiana della protezione degli adulti alla luce di una recente pronuncia’ [2020] 12 Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional 219-230. 🔒
Pietro Franzina, ‘L’evoluzione del diritto internazionale privato della protezione degli adulti tra iniziative dell’Unione, modelli universali e norme interne’ [2022] 2022(4) Jus-Online 212-250.
Pietro Franzina, ‘Un nuovo diritto internazionale privato della protezione degli adulti: le proposte della Commissione europea e gli sviluppi attesi in Italia’ [2023] 59(3) Rivista di diritto internazionale privato e processuale 519-578. 🔒
Francesca Garlisi, L’amministrazione di sostegno. Risposte giurisprudenziali a quesiti della pratica (Giuffrè 2012). 📚
Matilde Girolami, ‘La scelta negoziale nella protezione degli adulti vulnerabili: spunti dalla recente riforma tedesca’ in AAVV (eds), Liber Amicorum per Paolo Zatti. Volume primo (Jovene 2023), 365-386. 🔒
Costanza Honorati, ‘Articolo 43 (Protezione dei maggiori d’età)’ in Fausto Pocar (ed), Commentario del nuovo diritto internazionale privato (Cedam 1996), 217-220. 🔒
Costanza Honorati, ‘Articolo 44 (Giurisdizione in materia di protezione dei maggiori d’età)’ in Fausto Pocar (ed), Commentario del nuovo diritto internazionale privato (Cedam 1996), 220-223. 🔒
Elisabetta Lamarque, ‘The Cross-Border Protection of Vulnerable Adults in the EU from the Italian Perspective’ [2022] 2022(6) Osservatorio costituzionale 98-110.
Joëlle Long, ‘La contrattualizzazione dell’assistenza vitalizia agli anziani: dalla rendita vitalizia al contratto di mantenimento’ [2010] 2010(12) La Nuova Giurisprudenza Civile Commentata 601-616. 🔒
Joëlle Long, ‘La cura alla persona dipendente tra etica, legge e contratto’ [2010] 2010(1) Il diritto di famiglia e delle persone 478-498. 🔒
Joëlle Long, ‘Diritti e obblighi nella solidarietà privata tra legge e contratto’ in Roberto Cavallo Perin, Leonardo Lenti, Gabriella M Racca and Alessandra Rossi (eds), I diritti sociali come diritti della personalità (Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane 2010), 179-209. 🔒
Joëlle Long, ‘La protezione dell’anziano “debole” nel diritto civile: tra ablazione della capacità di agire e rispetto dell’autodeterminazione’ [2011] 2011(3) Rassegna di servizio sociale 42-52. 🔒
Joëlle Long, ‘Caring by contract: care arrangements for older people’ in Katharina Boele-Woelki, Jo Miles and Jens M Scherpe (eds), The Future of Family Property in Europe (Intersentia 2011), 207-226.
Joëlle Long, I contratti per l’assistenza residenziale alle persone anziane (Maggioli 2012).
Joëlle Long and Diego Lopomo, ‘Clinica legale e pubblica tutela: un’esperienza torinese’ in Angelo Maestroni, Paola Brambilla and Matteo Carrer (eds), Teorie e pratiche nelle cliniche legali (vol. II Giappichelli 2018), 261-278. 🔒
Emanuela Morotti, ‘Il “guardador de hecho” o caregiver in Italia‘ [2022] 17bis Actualidad Iuridíca Hiberoamericana 1934-1961.
Emanuela Morotti, ‘La qualificazione giuridica dell’attività del caregiver familiare‘ [2022] Familia 1-14.
Emanuela Morotti, ‘Spunti per l’introduzione della “guarda de hecho” in Italia’ in Javier Martínez Calvo and María Jesús Sánchez Cano (eds), El Derecho privado ante los retos de la Agenda 2030 (Thomson Reuters – Aranzadi 2022), 403-416.
Mariassunta Piccinni, ‘Chi decide per il paziente incapace? Amministrazione di sostegno e scelte di fine vita, Nota di commento a Trib. Modena, decr. 13.5.2008’ [2008]1 La Nuova giurisprudenza civile commentata 1299-1308. 🔒
Mariassunta Piccinni, ‘Relazione terapeutica e consenso dell’adulto “incapace”: dalla sostituzione al sostegno’ in Leonardo Lenti, Elisabetta Palermo Fabris e Paolo Zatti (eds), I diritti in medicina (Giuffrè 2011), 361-415. 🔒
Mariassunta Piccinni, ‘Misure di protezione e principio di sussidiarietà nell’attuazione dei diritti delle persone non autonome’ [2016] 1(6) La Nuova giurisprudenza civile commentata 829-837. 🔒
Mariassunta Piccinni and Umberto Roma, ‘Amministrazione di sostegno e disposizioni anticipate di trattamento: protezione della persona e promozione dell’autonomia’ [2014] 2014(2) Rivista trimestrale di diritto e procedura civile 727-740. 🔒
Alex Ruck Keene and Christian Montana, ‘Italy’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 546-553. 🔒
Sénat français, ‘La protection juridique des majeurs‘ (Comparative Study No. 148 2005).
Marco Torsello (ed), ‘Commento alla Legge 31 maggio 1995, n. 218 di riforma del sistema italiano di diritto internazionale privato’ [especially pp. 94–95] e-book connected to Massimo Franzoni, Rita Rolli, Giuseppe De Marzo (eds), Codice Civile Commentato con Dottrina e Giurisprudenza (Giappichelli 2018).
Giovanni Edoardo Vaccaro, ‘La tutela dei cittadini all’estero attraverso l’istituto dell’amministrazione di sostegno’, Centro di documentazione europea – Università di Catania – Online Working Paper 2012/n. 40 4-9.
Denard Veshi, Enkelejda Koka and Carlo Venditti, ‘A New Law of Advance Directives in Italy: A Critical Legal Analysis‘ [2019] 26(3) Journal of Law and Medicine 702-710.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Italy
International Guardianship Network, Italy Country report (2012) available in English and German.

Latvia 🇱🇻

Private International Law

Latvia is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of State parties due in 2012 – Latvia, 29 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LVA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Latvia, 10 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LVA/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Latvia under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2020, 26 August 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LVA/2-3.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Latvia

Liechtenstein 🇱🇮

Private International Law

Statute of 19 September 1996 on Private International Law

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Liechtenstein Country Report (2023)

Lithuania 🇱🇹

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2012 – Lithuania, 2 December 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LTU/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Lithuania, 11 May 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LTU/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Lithuania under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2020, 16 November 2022, UN Doc.
CRPD/C/LTU/2-3 (annex).

Bibliography

Ștefana Maria Moisă, Angela Mariana Enache, Andrada Pârvu, Silvia Dumitraș, Rodica Gramma, Gabriel Roman and Beatrice Ioan, ‘Advance Directives in Romania and Lithuania‘ [2019] 64(1) Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia 89-98.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Lithuania

Luxembourg 🇱🇺

Private International Law

Luxembourg has signed the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel) but has not ratified it yet

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2013 – Luxembourg, 7 September 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LUX/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Luxembourg, 10 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/LUX/CO/1.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Luxembourg

Malta 🇲🇹

Private International Law

Malta is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2014 – Malta, 11 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MLT/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Malta, 17 October 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MLT/CO/1.

Bibliography

Richard Frimston and others, ‘Malta’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 560-567. 🔒

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Malta
International Guardianship Network, Malta Country report (2016)

Monaco 🇲🇨

Private International Law

Monaco is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)
Ordonnance n. 6.009 du 28/07/2016 rendant exécutoire la Convention sur la protection internationale des adultes, conclue à La Haye le 13 janvier 2000 et entrée en vigueur le 1er janvier 2009, Journal de Monaco du 9 septembre 2016

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Monaco under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2019, 29 June 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MCO/1.

Montenegro 🇲🇪

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Montenegro, 30 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MNE/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Montenegro, 22 September 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MNE/CO/1.

Netherlands 🇳🇱

Civil Law

Dutch Civil Code, Book 1 Law of Persons and Family Law, Title 1.16 Guardianship of adults

Civil Procedural Law

Dutch Code of Civil Procedure

Private International Law

Dutch Code of Civil Procedure, Title 1 (General Provisions), Section 1 (Jurisdiction)
Dutch Civil Code, Book 10 on Private International Law (applicable law)
The Netherlands has signed the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel) but has not ratified it yet

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by the Netherlands under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 6 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NLD/1 (annex 1, annex 2, annex 3, annex 4).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, 27 September 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NLD/CO/1.

Bibliography

Kees Blankman, ‘Guardianship Legislation in The Netherlands’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 181-190.
Kees Blankman and Rieneke Stelma-Roorda, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – The Netherlands‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Richard Frimston and others, ‘Netherlands’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 568-574. 🔒
Sonia Dominika Rovers, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Netherlands’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 339-370.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Netherlands
International Guardianship Network, Netherlands Country report (2016)

North Macedonia 🇲🇰

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2013 – The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 3 December 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MKD/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 29 October 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MKD/CO/1.

Bibliography

Elena Ignovska, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – North Macedonia‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.

Norway 🇳🇴

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by Statesparties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2015 – Norway, 7 December 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NOR/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Norway, 7 May 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NOR/CO/1.

Bibliography

Katrine K Fredwall, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Norway‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Karl Harald Søvig and Anna Vasslid Valvatnein, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Norway’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 387-409.
Ragnhildur Helgadóttir, ‘The UN Convention In Nordic Domestic Law – Lessons Learned From Other Treaties’ in Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir and Gerard Quinn (eds), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: European and Scandinavian Perspectives (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2009), 279-302. 🔒
Alex Ruck Keene and Katrine Kjærheim Fredwall, ‘Norway’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 581-588. 🔒

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Norway Country report (2016)

Poland 🇵🇱

Private International Law

Code of Civil Procedure, Part IV (jurisdiction), available in Polish and English
Act on Private International Law of 4 February 2011, Journal of Laws of the Republic of Poland of 15 April 2011, No. 80, item 432 (applicable law)
Code of Civil Procedure, art. 11471 (recognition and enforcement of decisions of incapacitation), available in Polish and English
Poland has signed the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel) but has not ratified it yet

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial report of State party due in 2014 – Poland, 3 November 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/POL/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Poland, 29 October 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/POL/CO/1.

Bibliography

AAVV, ‘Active legal capacity – Polish law perspective’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 607-718.
Malgorzata Balwicka-Szczyrba, Anna Sylwestrzak and Marcin Glicz, ‘Supporting Elderly Persons in Polish Family and Succession Law’ [2018] International Survey of Family Law 425-440. 🔒
Piotr Fiedorczyk and Bartosz K Truszkowski, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Poland‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Anna Juryk, ‘The Protection of Adults in Private International Law’ [2016] 2016(8) Silesian Journal of Legal Studies 27-43.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Poland
International Guardianship Network, Poland Country report (2016)

Portugal 🇵🇹

Civil Law

Civil Code, Decreto-Lei n. 47344
Lei n. 49/2018, of 14 August 2018, on the elimination of the interdiction and inhabilitation of vulnerable adults and on the introduction of the regulation of the “accompanied adult”

Private International Law

Portugal is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)
Resolução da Assembleia da República n. 52/2014, approved the Convention on 19 June 2014
Decreto do Presidente da República n.º 44/2014, ratification on 19 June 2014

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Portugal, 10 September 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PRT/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Portugal, 20 May 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PRT/CO/1.

Bibliography

Richard Frimston and others, ‘Portugal’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 589-598. 🔒
Geraldo Rocha Ribeiro, ‘A Convenção da Haia de 2000, relativa à proteção internacional de adultos: a experiência portuguesa na sua aplicação‘ [2022] Julgar Online 1-57.
 Paula Távora Vítor, ‘Legal Protection and Empowerment of Vulnerable Adults – Portugal‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Rute Teixeira Pedro, ‘Chronicle of Legal Reform Foretold: The Shape of the Law to Come regarding Incompetent Adults in Portugal’ [2018] International Survey of Family Law 441-454. 🔒

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Portugal

Republic of Moldova 🇲🇩

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial report of States parties due in 2012 – Republic of Moldova, 30 March 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MDA/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Republic of Moldova, 18 May 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MDA/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by the Republic of Moldova under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2020, 13 September 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MDA/2-3.

Romania 🇷🇴

Private International Law

Art. 2578 of the Romanian Civil Code
Art. 1095 of the Romanian Civil Procedure Code

Bibliography

Cosmin Dariescu, ‘Imperative ale modernizării protecţiei internaţionale a adulţilor vulnerabili în România’ [2023] 2023(1) Analele Universității de Vest din Timișoara – Seria Drept 105-124. 🔒
Silvia Dumitraș, Angela Mariana Enache, Andrada Pârvu, Ștefana Maria Moisă, Cătălin Iov and Beatrice Ioan, ‘Advance Directive from the Romanian Social Cultural Perspective‘ [2013] 4(1) Postmodern Openings 87-101.
Simona Florescu, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Romania‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Ștefana Maria Moisă, Angela Mariana Enache, Andrada Pârvu, Silvia Dumitraș, Rodica Gramma, Gabriel Roman and Beatrice Ioan, ‘Advance Directives in Romania and Lithuania‘ [2019] 64(1) Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philosophia 89-98.
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, ‘Comparative Study on the legal systems of the protection of adults lacking legal capacity. National Rules of Private Law, of Private International Law and a Possible Legislative Initiative of the European Union. United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania’ (2008) European Parliament.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Romania

Serbia 🇷🇸

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 – Serbia, 29 September 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SRB/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Serbia, 23 May 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SRB/CO/1.

Bibliography

Gordana Kovaček Stanić and Sandra Samardžić, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Serbia‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Nataša Lučić and Branka Rešetar, ‘Advance Directives in Legislative and Theoretical Frameworks of Family Law‘ [2024] 72(2) Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 197-221.

Slovakia 🇸🇰

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2012 – Slovakia, 24 September 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SVK/1 (annex).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Slovakia, 17 May 2016, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SVK/CO/1.

Bibliography

Michal Duris and Katarina Burdova, ‘Vybrané otázky právnej ochrany zraniteľných dospelých prostriedkami medzinárodného práva súkromného – zákon o medzinárodnom práve súkromnom a procesnom’ [2012] 2012(2) Pravny Obzor: Teoreticky Casopis Pre Otazky Statu a Prava 164-172.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Slovakia

Slovenia 🇸🇮

Civil Law

Family Code 2017, Družinski zakoni-FC, Text n. 729, adopted on 21 March 2017, entered into force on 15 April 2019 (or an explanation in English see here)

Private International Law

Private International Law and Procedure Act of 1999, Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia Nos. 56/1999 and 45/2008

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2010 – Slovenia, 30 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SVN/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Slovenia, 16 April 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SVN/CO/1.

Bibliography

Nataša Lučić and Branka Rešetar, ‘Advance Directives in Legislative and Theoretical Frameworks of Family Law‘ [2024] 72(2) Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 197-221.
Barbara Novak, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Slovenia‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Slovenia
International Guardianship Network, Slovenia Country report (2016)

Spain 🇪🇸

Civil Law

Código Civil, Real Decreto de 24 de julio de 1889, Gaceta de Madrid, num. 206, de 25 de julio 1889, entrado en vigor el 16/08/1889, actualizado el 4 de agosto 2018 (Articles 256 ss. on “poderes preventivos”)
Ley 8/2021, de 2 junio, por la que se reforma la legislación civil y procesal para el apoyo a las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de su capacidad jurídica, BOE num. 132 de 3 de junio 2021, entrada en vigor el 3 septiembre 2021

Civil Procedural Law

Ley Orgánica del Poder Judicial 6/1985, de 1 de julio 1985, BOE num. 157 de 2 de julio 1985, entrada en vigor el 3 julio 1985, actualizada por la Ley Orgánica 7/2015
Ley 8/2021, de 2 junio, por la que se reforma la legislación civil y procesal para el apoyo a las personas con discapacidad en el ejercicio de su capacidad jurídica, BOE num. 132 de 3 de junio 2021, entrada en vigor el 3 septiembre 2021

Private International Law

Ley Orgánica del Poder Judicial 6/1985, de 1 de julio 1985, BOE num. 157 de 2 de julio 1985, entrada en vigore el 3 julio 1985, actualizada por la Ley Orgánica 7/2015 (jurisdiction; especially art. 22-quáter (b), art. 22-sexies, 22-octies (3))
Código Civil, Real Decreto de 24 de julio de 1889, Gaceta de Madrid, num. 206, de 25 de julio 1889, entrado en vigor el 16/08/1889, actualizado el 4 de agosto 2018 (applicable law; especially art. 9 paras. 1 and 6)
Ley de cooperación jurídica internacional en materia civil 29/2015, de 30 de julio 2015, BOE num. 182 de 32 de julio 2015, 65906–65942

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties in accordance with article 35 of the Convention – Spain, 5 October 2010, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ESP/1 (annex 1, annex 2).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Spain, 19 October 2011, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ESP/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Spain, 13 May 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/ESP/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Salomé Adroher Biosca, ‘La protección de adultos en el Derecho internacional privado español novedades y retos’ [2019] 71(1) Revista española de derecho internacional 163-185.
María José Bravo Bosch and Inés Celia Iglesias Canle, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Spain’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 466-508.
Núria Coch Roura, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Catalan legal system’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 87-111.
Patricia Cuenca Gómez, ‘Reflections on the Reform of Spanish Civil Legislation on Legal Capacity of Persons with Disabilities’ in Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu (eds), Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (Hart Publishing 2022), 157-176.
María del Pilar Diago Diago, ‘La protección de personas adultas en situaciones transfronterizas e internas: en busca del tiempo perdido‘ [2024] 2 De lege ferenda. Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Granada 65-94.
Antonia Durán Ayago, ‘Nuevos escenarios en la protección internacional de adultos’ in Mariano Alonso Pérez, Eva María Martínez Gallego and Justo Reguero Celada (eds), Protección jurídica de los mayores (La Ley 2004), 443-470.
María T Echezarreta Ferrer, ‘Gestión de la diversidad y de la pluriconexión jurídica. Respuesta del derecho internacional privado español a la protección de los gerontoinmigrantes comunitarios (GIC) en situación de vulnerabilidad’ in María T Echezarreta Ferrer (ed), El lugar europeo de retiro. Indicadores de excelencia para administrar la gerontoinmigración de ciudadanos de la Unión Europea en municipios españoles (Editorial Comares 2005), 335-398.
Nayiber Febles Pozo, ‘La protección transfronteriza de adultos en la Unión Europea: la propuesta de Reglamento en materia de protección de adultos‘ [2023] 18 Bitácora Millennium DIPr: Derecho Internacional Privado.
Richard Frimston and others, ‘Spain’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 612-619. 🔒
Cristina González Beilfuss, ‘La protección de adultos en derecho internacional privado’ in Alfonso L Calvo Caravaca and José L Iriarte Ángel (eds), Estatuto personal y multiculturalidad de la familia (Colex 2000), 85-102.
José L Iriarte Ángel, ‘La protección de adultos en derecho internacional privado’ in Alegría Borrás Rodríguez and Georgina Garriga (eds), Adaptación de la legislación interna a la normativa de la Unión Europea en materia de cooperación civil – Homenaje al Prof Dr Ramón Viñas Farré (Marcial Pons 2012), 203-218.
Katja Karjalainen, Ikääntyminen, liikkuvuus ja kansainvälinen yksityisoikeus Euroopassa: Vertaileva tutkimus rajat ylittävistä ongelmista sekä edunvalvonnasta Suomessa ja Espanjassa (Suomalainen lakimiesyhdistys 2016).
Alberto Muñoz Fernández, La protección del adulto en el derecho internacional privado (Thomson-Aranzadi 2009).
Alberto Muñoz Fernández, ‘Las medidas de apoyo para las personas con discapacidad en situaciones transfronterizas. Práctica judicial’ in Alfonso Luis Calvo Caravaca and Javier Carrascosa González (eds), El derecho de familia internacional del siglo XXI en la práctica judicial (Thomson Reuters Aranzadi 2022), chapter XIX.
Jordi Ribot Igualada, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Spain‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Jordi Ribot Igualada, ‘The Reforms of Spanish Law on Legal Capacity and Supported Decisionmaking for Persons with Disabilities‘ [2023] Family & Law 1-22.
Sénat français, ‘La protection juridique des majeurs‘ (Comparative Study No. 148 2005).
Carmen Vaquero Lopez, ‘Nuevas normas de derecho internacional privado estatal en materia de proteccion de adultos y de menores’ [2016] 2016(16) Anuario Espanol de Derecho Internacional Privado 395-414. 🔒
Denard Veshi and Gerald Neitzke, ‘Advance Directives in Some Western European Countries: A Legal and Ethical Comparison between Spain, France, England, and Germany’ [2015] 22(4) European Journal of Health Law 321-345. 🔒
Mònica Vinaixa Miquel, ‘Los poderes preventivos en el Derecho Internacional Privado español: una aproximación crítica a la Ley 8/2021, de 2 de junio‘ [2023] 75 Revista Española De Derecho Internacional 405-415.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Spain
International Guardianship Network, ‘Spain Country report‘ (2016).
International Guardianship Network, ‘Catalonia (Spain) Country report‘ (2016).

Sweden 🇸🇪

Civil Law

Swedish Code of Statutes 1949:381
Children, Parents and Guardians Code, Chapters 11-16 and 19-20

Civil Procedural Law

Code on Judicial Procedure, SOU 1942:740

Private International Law

Act on Certain International Legal Relations relating Marriage and Guardianship, 1904:26, s.1) (applicable law)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Sweden, 18 september 2012, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SWE/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Sweden, 12 May 2014, UN Doc. 12 May 2014.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Sweden under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2019, 19 July 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SWE/2-3 (annex).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Sweden, 29 April 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/SWE/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Margareta Brattström and Therése Fridström Montoya, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Sweden‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Israel Doron, ‘Elder Guardianship Kaleidoscope – A Comparative Perspective’ [2002] 16(3) International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 368-398. 🔒
Christer Fjordevik, ‘Adult Guardianship in Sweden: A Chief Guardian’s Perspective’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 207-214.
Richard Frimston and Torbjörn Odlöw, ‘Sweden’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 620-627. 🔒
Yana Litins’ka, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the Kingdom of Sweden’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 509-530.
Titti Mattsson, ‘Autonomy, Capacity, and Vulnerability: Making Decisions on Social Services for Persons with Dementia in Sweden’ in Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu (eds), Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (Hart Publishing 2022), 235-254.
Anna Nilsson, ‘Unlocking the impact of the CRPD on Swedish mental health law‘ [2024] 93 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 101966.
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, ‘Comparative Study on the legal systems of the protection of adults lacking legal capacity. National Rules of Private Law, of Private International Law and a Possible Legislative Initiative of the European Union. United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania’ (2008) European Parliament.

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Sweden Country report (2016)

Switzerland 🇨🇭

Civil Law

Civil Code, Division Three “The Protection of Adults”

Private International Law

Switzerland is a State party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel)

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Switzerland under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2016, 10 December 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHE/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Switzerland, 13 April 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/CHE/CO/1.

Bibliography

Regina Aebi-Müller and others, ‘Switzerland’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 386-394. 🔒
Michelle Cottier and Cécile Crevoisier Abdel Aziz, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Switzerland‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Florence Guillaume, ‘Commentaire des dispositions des Conventions de La Haye sur la protection des adultes et des enfants et de l’article 85 LDIP’ in Andrea Büchler, Christoph Häfeli, Audrey Leuba and Martin Stettler (eds), FamKommentar – Erwachsenenschutz (Éditions Stämpfli 2013), 1199-1343.
Audrey Leuba, ‘Le mandat pour cause d’inaptitude du droit suisse’ in Nicole Gallus (ed), La protection des incapables majeurs et le droit du mandat (Anthemis 2014), 155-164.
Philippe Meier and Vanessa Orville, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Switzerland’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 531-544.
Anne Röthel, ‘Private Vorsorge ausländischer Staatsangehöriger mit Wirkung im Inland’ in Volker Lipp (ed), Handbuch der Vorsorgeverfügungen (Vahlen 2009), 450-459.
Sénat français, ‘La protection juridique des majeurs‘ (Comparative Study No. 148 2005).
Paul-Henri Steinauer and Christiana Fountoulakis, Droit des personnes physiques et de la protection de l’adulte (Éditions Stämpfli 2014).

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, Switzerland Country report (2012) available in English and German

Ukraine 🇺🇦

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2012 – Ukraine, 12 November 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/UKR/1 (annexes).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Ukraine, 2 October 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/UKR/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Ukraine under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2020, 18 April 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/UKR/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Ukraine, 2 October 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/UKR/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Yana Litins’ka and Iryna Senyuta, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – Ukraine‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Renáta Tichá, Olha Telna, Jan Šiška, Dušan Klapko and Laurie Kincade, ‘Choices, Preferences, and Disability: A View from Central and Eastern Europe’ in Roger J Stancliffe, Michael L Wehmeyer, Karrie A Shogren and Brian H Abery (eds), Choice, Preference, and Disability. Promoting Self-Determination Across the Lifespan (Springer 2020), 111-132.

Useful links

CNUE, The Vulnerable in Europe – The Vulnerable in Ukraine

United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Civil Law

Mental Capacity Act 2005, Sections 9 ss.
Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 – Sections 275-276C on advance statements

Private International Law

In the United Kingdom, only Scotland is a party to the Hague Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults (cfr. the dedicated page in Ravel); see declaration
Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
Mental Capacity Act 2005, applicability of the Convention for England and Wales by virtue of Schedule 3
Mental Capacity Bill, 2015 (Adopted as Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016) Clause 272, Schedule 9
The Jurisdiction and Judgments (Family) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 No. 519

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2011 -United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 3 July 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GBR/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 3 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GBR/CO/1.

Bibliography

Daniel Bedford and Brian Sloan, ‘The Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults – England and Wales‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Hillary Chua, Camillia Kong and Michael Dunn, ‘The two lives of the Mental Capacity Act: rethinking East-west binaries in comparative analysis‘ [2024] Medical Law Review 1-22.
John Coggon and Camillia Kong, ‘From Best Interests to Better Interests? Values, Unwisdom, and Objectivity in Mental Capacity Law‘ [2021] 80(2) The Cambridge Law Journal 245-273.
Gavin Davidson, Martin Daly, Moira Harper, Danielle McIlroy and Lorna Montgomery, ‘The Fusion Approach to Mental Capacity Law in Northern Ireland: Possibilities and Challenges’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 46-64. 🔒
Pietro Franzina and Thalia Kruger, ‘The International Protection of Adults after Brexit‘ [2024] 38(1) International Journal of Law, Policy and The Family ebae017.
Richard Frimston, ‘Incorporation of 2000 Hague Convention in English Law‘ (conflictoflaws.net 2008) accessed 23 August 2024.
Richard Frimston, ‘Cross border incapacity: Will England and Wales find the tin opener? Schedule 3 to the Mental Capacity Act 2005‘ (russell-cooke.co.uk 2011) accessed 23 August 2024.
Michael Graham, ‘Northern Ireland’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 260-270. 🔒
Katja Karjalainen, ‘Strengthening the Right to Personal Autonomy and Protection of Vulnerable Adults: from Human Rights to Domestic and European legislation on Voluntary Measures‘ in Katja Karjalainen, Iina Tornberg, Aleksi Pursiainen (eds), International Actors and the Formation of Laws (Springer 2022), 65-88.
Perrine Angelika Kobsik, Antizipierte Erklärungen in Gesundheitsangelegenheiten im grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr (Duncker & Humblot 2020).
Camillia Kong, ‘Beyond the Balancing Scales: The Importance of Prejudice and Dialogue in A Local Authority v E and Others‘ [2014] 26(2) Child and Family Law Quarterly 216-236.
Camillia Kong and Alex Ruck Ruck Keene, Overcoming Challenges in the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Practical Guidance for Working with Complex Issues (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2018).
Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Michael Dunn and Penny Cooper, ‘Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law‘ [2019] 8(1) Laws 3.
Camillia Kong, ‘Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law. Final project report‘ (2022) The Judging Values Project.
Judy Laing, Jeremy Dixon and Kevin Stone, ‘‘I was going into it blind’: Nearest Relatives, legal literacy, and the Mental Health Act 1983‘ [2024] 94 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 101981.
Jaime Lindsey, ‘Law’s Legitimacy and Social Work Support in Safeguarding Adults at Risk of Abuse in England’ in Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu (eds), Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (Hart Publishing 2022), 255-272.
Denzil Lush, ‘Guardianship in England and Wales’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 137-152.
Wayne Martin, ‘Les débats autour de l’article 12 au Royaume-Uni’ in Benoît Eyraud, Julie Minoc, Cécile Hanon (eds), Choisir et agir pour autrui ?: Controverse autour de la Convention de l’ONU relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (Doin 2018), 93-96.
Karen Newbigging, Julie Ridley and June Sadd, ‘Realising the right to equal recognition for disabled people: commissioning statutory advocacy in England’ [2021] 36(3) Disability & Society 420-442. 🔒
Charles O’Mahony, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 563-576.
Michael Potter, ‘The Mental Capacity Bill and Human Rights‘ (2015) Northern Ireland Assembly, Research and Information Service, Briefing Paper, Paper 111/15, 6 October 2015.
Michael Potter, ‘The Convention on the International Protection of Adults and the Mental Capacity Bill‘ (2015) Northern Ireland Assembly, Research and Information Service, Briefing Paper, Paper 130/15, 18 November 2015.
Jacquie Reilly and Jacqueline M Atkinson, ‘The content of mental health advance directives: Advance statements in Scotland’ [2010] 33(2) International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 116-121. 🔒
John Rimmer, ‘Isle of Man’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 295-309. 🔒
Sénat français, ‘La protection juridique des majeurs‘ (Comparative Study No. 148 2005).
Jill Stavert, ‘Adapting or Discarding the Status Quo? Supporting the Exercise of Legal Capacity in Scottish Law and Practice’ in Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu (eds), Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (Hart Publishing 2022), 177-194.
Jill Stavert, ‘Mental Capacity Regimes Approach to Values and Participation in Proceedings Involving Individuals With Impaired Decision-Making Capacity in Scotland’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 27-45. 🔒
Jill Stavert, ‘Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation’ in Neeraj Gill and Norman Sartorius (eds), Mental Health and Human Rights. The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (Springer 2024), 153-165.
Jill Stavert, ‘The CRPD and mental health law reform in Scotland’ [2024] 94 International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 101991. 🔒
Rebecca Stickler, ‘Mental Capacity Law in England and Wales: A Value-Laden Jurisdiction’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 9-26. 🔒
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, ‘Comparative Study on the legal systems of the protection of adults lacking legal capacity. National Rules of Private Law, of Private International Law and a Possible Legislative Initiative of the European Union. United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania’ (2008) European Parliament.
Claire van Overdijk, ‘England and Wales’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 175-216. 🔒
Denard Veshi and Gerald Neitzke, ‘Advance Directives in Some Western European Countries: A Legal and Ethical Comparison between Spain, France, England, and Germany’ [2015] 22(4) European Journal of Health Law 321-345. 🔒
Adrian Ward, ‘Legal Protection of Adults – An International Comparison’ [2017] 2017(2) Elder Law Journal 147-159. 🔒
Adrian Ward, ‘Scotland’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 217-259. 🔒
Donna Withers and Carl Parslow, ‘Jersey’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 310-322. 🔒

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, England and Wales Country report (2016)
International Guardianship Network, Scotland Country report (2016)
International Guardianship Network, Northern Ireland Country report (2016)

5. Oceania

Australia 🇦🇺

Private International Law

Foreign Judgments Act 1999, Act No. 112, 1992 as amended

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Australia, 7 June 2012, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AUS/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Australia, adopted by the Committee at its tenth session (2-13 September 2013), 21 October 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AUS/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third periodic reports submitted by Australia under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2018, 5 February 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AUS/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Australia, 15 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AUS/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Christine Bigby, Jacinta Douglas, Terry Carney, Shih-Ning Then, Ilan Wiesel and Elizabeth Smith, ‘Delivering decision making support to people with cognitive disability — What has been learned from pilot programs in Australia from 2010 to 2015‘ [2017] 52(3) Australian Journal of Social Issues 222-240.
Richard Frimston and Chris Young, ‘Australia – New South Wales’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 427-434. 🔒
Carmel Laragy and Karen R Fisher, ‘Choice, Control and Individual Funding: The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme’ in Roger J Stancliffe, Michael L Wehmeyer, Karrie A Shogren and Brian H Abery (eds), Choice, Preference, and Disability. Promoting Self-Determination Across the Lifespan (Springer 2020), 133-154.
Alex Ruck Keene and Mary Sealy, ‘Australia – Victoria’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 435-440. 🔒
Cameron Stewart, ‘Capacity, Participation and Values in Australian Guardianship Laws’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 120-142. 🔒
Shih-Ning Then and Christine Bigby, ‘Supported decision-making and the Disability Royal Commission‘ [2024] 11(1) Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities 86-106.
Joanne Watson, Julie Anderson, Erin Wilson and Kate L Anderson, ‘The impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) on Victorian guardianship practice‘ [2022] 44(12) Disability and Rehabilitation 2806-2814.
Karen Williams and Sue Field, ‘Guardianship in Australia’ in A Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 83-108.

Useful links

Inclusion Australia: website and supported decision making webpage
International Guardianship Network, Australia Country report (2016)
Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability, ‘Diversity, dignity, equity and best practice: a framework for supported decision-making’: project and publications
The Public Advocate: Decision making support webpage and materials

Cook Islands 🇨🇰

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Cook Islands, 28 June 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/COK/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Cook Islands, 15 May 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/COK/CO/1.

Kiribati 🇰🇮

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Kiribati under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2015, 10 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KIR/1.

Marshall Islands 🇲🇭

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by the Marshall Islands under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2017, 28 April 2020, UN Doc. CRPD/C/MHL/1.

New Zealand 🇳🇿

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – New Zealand, 1 October 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NZL/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of New Zealand, 31 October 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NZL/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of New Zealand, 26 September 2022, UN Doc. CRPD/C/NZL/CO/2-3.

Bibliography

Bill Atkin, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in New Zealand’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 371-386.
Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies and British Columbia Law Institute, ‘A Comparative analysis of Adult Guardianship in BC, New Zealand and Ontario‘ (2006).
Kris Gledhill, ‘Navigating Values in Aotearoa New Zealand’ in Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023), 143-161. 🔒
Adrian Ward and Kris Gledhill, ‘New Zealand’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 575-580. 🔒

Useful links

International Guardianship Network, New Zealand Country report (2016)

Palau 🇵🇼

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Palau under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2015, 5 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/PLW/1.

Tuvalu 🇹🇻

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Tuvalu under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2016, 7 March 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TUV/1.

Vanuatu 🇻🇺

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Vanuatu under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2010, 2 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/VUT/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Vanuatu, 13 May 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/VUT/CO/1.

6. Transcontinental States

Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – Initial reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Azerbaijan, 7 February 2013, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AZE/1 (annex).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Azerbaijan, 12 May 2014, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AZE/CO/1.
CRPD Committee, Combined second and third reports submitted by Azerbaijan under article 35 of the Convention pursuant to the optional reporting procedure, due in 2019, 2 December 2021, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AZE/2-3.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of Azerbaijan, 22 April 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/AZE/CO/2-3.

Georgia 🇬🇪

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Georgia under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2016, 29 November 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GEO/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Georgia, 18 April 2023, UN Doc. CRPD/C/GEO/CO/1.

Bibliography

Eka Chkonia and Simon Surguladze, ‘Georgia: Steps for the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ in Neeraj Gill and Norman Sartorius (eds), Mental Health and Human Rights. The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (Springer 2024), 129-133.
Irine Kurdadze and Mariam Kevlishvili, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Georgia’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 228-247.

Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State party’s reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Kazakhstan under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2017, 21 February 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KAZ/1 (annex).
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Kazakhstan, 19 April 2024, UN Doc. CRPD/C/KAZ/CO/1.

Russia 🇷🇺

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 35 of the Convention – Initial reports of States parties due in 2014 – Russian Federation, 13 March 2015, UN Doc. CRPD/C/RUS/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of the Russian Federation, 9 April 2018, UN Doc. CRPD/C/RUS/CO/1.

Bibliography

Andrey Shirvindt, ‘Legal Protection and Empowerment of Vulnerable Adults – Russia‘ (2023) FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network.
Iulia Taran, ‘L’exemple de l’interprétation de l’article 12 dans le contexte russe’ in Benoît Eyraud, Julie Minoc, Cécile Hanon (eds), Choisir et agir pour autrui ?: Controverse autour de la Convention de l’ONU relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (Doin 2018), 119-126.
Adrian Ward and Dmitri Bartenev, ‘Russia’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 599-603. 🔒

Turkey 🇹🇷

Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities State’s party reports

CRPD Committee, Initial report submitted by Turkey under article 35 of the Convention, due in 2011, 4 October 2017, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TUR/1.
CRPD Committee, Concluding observations on the initial report of Turkey, 1 October 2019, UN Doc. CRPD/C/TUR/CO/1.

Bibliography

Günhan Gönül Koşar, ‘Implementation of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Turkey’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 545-562.
Ekrem Kurt and Sezgin Seymen Çebi, ‘Turkish Adult Guardianship Law in Perspective’ in A. Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014), 215-230.
Ezgi Taşcıoğlu, ‘Performing Disability Rights: State Reporting and Turkey’s (Non)Engagement with the CRPD’ in Mary Donnelly, Rosie Harding and Ezgi Taşcıoğlu (eds), Supporting Legal Capacity in Socio-Legal Context (Hart Publishing 2022), 195-214.
Claire van Overdijk and others, ‘Turkey’ in Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults, (Oxford University Press 2015), 628-636. 🔒

General bibliography

Lilia Angelova-Mladenova with support from Rita Crespo Fernandez, ‘Towards Dignity and Autonomy: A Comprehensive Look at Personal Assistance Policies for Persons with Disabilities Worldwide‘ (2024) International Labour Organization.
Theresia Degener and Gerard Quinn, ‘A Survey of International, Comparative and Regional Disability Law Reform’ in Mary Lou Breslin and Silvia Yee (eds), Disability Rights Law and Policy: International and National Perspectives (1^st edn Brill Nijhoff 2002), 3-125. 🔒
Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński, ‘Comparative analysis of the transposition of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ in Maciej Domański and Bogusław Lackoroński (eds), Models of Implementation of Article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Private and Criminal Law Aspects (Routledge 2024), 600-606.
Richard Frimston, Alex Ruck Keene, Claire van Overdijk and Adrian Ward (eds), The International Protection of Adults (Oxford University Press 2015). 🔒
Shaun Grech and Karen Soldatic (eds), Disability in the Global South. The Critical Handbook (Springer 2016). 🔒
Andreas Heldrich and Anton F Steiner, ‘Capacity’, International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (2007), 2-13 – 2-40. 🔒
Holger Kallehauge, ‘General Themes Relevant To The Implementation Of The UN Disability Convention Into Domestic Law: Who Is Responsible For The Implementation And How Should It Be Performed?’ in Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir and Gerard Quinn (eds), The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: European and Scandinavian Perspectives (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2009), 201-214. 🔒
A Kimberley Dayton (ed), Comparative Perspectives on Adult Guardianship (Carolina Academic Press 2014).
Perrine Angelika Kobsik, Antizipierte Erklärungen in Gesundheitsangelegenheiten im grenzüberschreitenden Verkehr (Duncker & Humblot 2020).
Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene (eds), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective (Bristol University Press 2023). 🔒
Nataša Lučić and Branka Rešetar, ‘Advance Directives in Legislative and Theoretical Frameworks of Family Law‘ [2024] 72(2) Anali Pravnog fakulteta u Beogradu 197-221.
Helen Meekosha and Karen Soldatic, ‘Human Rights and the Global South: the case of disability‘ [2011] 32(8) Third World Quarterly 1383-1398.
Stefania Negri (ed), Self-Determination, Dignity and End-of-Life Care. Regulating Advance Directives in International and Comparative Perspective (Brill 2012). 🔒
Charles P Sabatino and Erica Wood, ‘The Conceptualization of Legal Capacity of Older Persons in Western Law’ in Israel Doron and Ann M Soden (eds), Beyond Elder Law: New Directions in Law and Ageing (Springer 2012), 35-55.
Mala Kapur Shankardass (ed), International Handbook of Elder Abuse and Mistreatment (Springer 2020).
Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, ‘Comparative Study on the legal systems of the protection of adults lacking legal capacity. National Rules of Private Law, of Private International Law and a Possible Legislative Initiative of the European Union. United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden, Czech Republic, Romania’ (2008) European Parliament.
Pamela B Teaster, Georgia J Anetzberger and Elizabeth Podnieks (eds), The Worldwide Face of Elder Abuse (Springer 2023).
Adrian Ward, ‘Legal Protection of Adults – An International Comparison’ [2017] 2017(2) Elder Law Journal 147-159. 🔒

NGOs and civil society initiatives

FL-EUR Family Law in Europe: Academic Network country reports ‘Empowerment and Protection of Vulnerable Adults‘.
International Guardianship Network: congresses, projects, videos, documents and more
Notaries in Europe, The Vulnerable in Europe. Protective measures for minors and vulnerable adults in 22 European countries.

General useful links

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