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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956774103321

Titolo

Law, rights, and disability / / edited by Jeremy Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2000

ISBN

9786610537976

9781280537974

1280537973

9781846421228

1846421225

9781417552795

1417552794

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

CooperJeremy <1950->

Disciplina

346.4101/3

Soggetti

People with disabilities - Legal status, laws, etc - Great Britain

Discrimination against people with disabilities - Law and legislation - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Working in Partnership with Disabled People""; ""Changing Attitudes to the Rights of People with""; ""Disabilities in Europe""; ""Improving the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities Through International Law""; ""Improving the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities Through Domestic Law""; ""The Legal Regulation of the Powers and Duties of Local Authorities with regard to Disabled People""; ""The Disability Discrimination Act""; ""Disability, Housing and Homelessness""; ""Disability and Mental Health Law""; ""Disabled Children: (Still) Invisible Under the Law""; ""Disabled Children and Social Care"" ""Clear Voices for Change""; ""The Contributors""; ""Subject Index""; ""Author Index""

Sommario/riassunto

This comprehensive volume assesses the relationship between legal rights and disability and the effect of law, legal process and third party professional intervention on the lives of people with disabilities. Stressing the crucial role played by disabled people themselves in fulfilling the promise of the worldwide rights movement, the chapters



examine this relationship across a variety of themes, stressing the legal elements of each issue, and the extent to which law can assist in strengthening individual rights in that area. The contributors, who are all either academics or other professional experts in their field, write in a jargon free accessible style. The volume will be of interest to lawyers, human rights activists, health care professionals and to disabled people generally. The main areas covered in the volume are: new perspectives on working in partnership with disabled people; the changing attitudes to the rights of people with disabilities across the globe; improvements to the rights of disabled people through legal process, using national and international law; an examination of the rights and entitlement of disabled people to community care, housing, employment, education, and special services for children; disabled people and mental health law; messages from disability research for law, practice and reform implications for research.