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Barbara Walker-Renshaw, Partner in the Toronto Health Law Group and National Leader of BLG’s Mental Health Law Practice has published an article in Health Law in Canada (February, 2015).
Barbara Walker-Renshaw, Partner in the Toronto Health Law Group
and National Leader of BLG's Mental Health Law Practice has
published an article in Health Law in Canada (February,
2015). Her article, entitled: "Interim Treatment
Orders: Facilitating Treatment Pending Final Disposition of
Treatment Capacity Appeals" explores the legal
framework for determining a patient's capacity to consent to
treatment and the manner in which appeals from Consent and Capacity
Board decisions confirming treatment incapacity may affect a
healthcare provider's ability to commence treatment.
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