Publications
Advance Directives and Substitute Decision-Making in Personal Health Care, Final Report 64
Present law relating to substitute healthcare decision-making is deficient, as it requires that consent be obtained but does not provided a practical mechanism for doing so. The law also fails to provide individuals with a mechanism for planning for their own incapacity with respect to healthcare decisions. This report contains 28 recommendations and contains draft legislation entitled Health Care Instructions Act which would create the advance directive, create the healthcare agent or proxy, and integrate the scheme […]
| AREA OF LAW | Wills and Succession |
| TAGS | patient, adult, healthcare, treatment, consent, decision, health care, personal |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | fr064.pdf |
March 28, 1993
Advance Directives and Substitute Decision-Making in Personal Health Care, Report for Discussion 11
Present law relating to substitute healthcare decision-making is deficient, as it requires that consent be obtained but does not provided a practical mechanism for doing so. The law also fails to provide individuals with a mechanism for planning for their own incapacity with respect to healthcare decisions. This report contains 28 recommendations and contains draft legislation entitled Health Care Instructions Act which would create the advance directive, create the healthcare agent or proxy, and integrate the scheme […]
| AREA OF LAW | Wills and Succession |
| TAGS | patient, adult, healthcare, treatment, consent, decision, health care, personal |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | rfd11.pdf |
November 2, 1991
Competence and Human Reproduction, Final Report 52
This report recommends the draft legislation Competence and Human Reproduction Act to create a decision-making process regarding sterilization for those not legally competent to make the decision themselves. The Act replaces the blanket prohibition of Re Eve with legislation that allows for a judgment based on the best interest of the individual and an empathy for her situation. The Institute concluded that no person should be denied access to sterilization because she is not competent […]
| AREA OF LAW | Wills and Succession |
| TAGS | capacity, consent, disease, health care, medical treatment, minor, sex, venereal |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | fr052.pdf |
February 1, 1989
Consent of Minors to Health Care, Final Report 19
The general rule is that medical treatment can be given only with the consent of the patient. The age of majority in Alberta is eighteen years, but as one moves to lower ages, sixteen, fifteen, and so on the uncertainty of consent increases. A physician dealing with a minor is left in doubt as to when the patient can give a binding consent. Legislation is required to specify definitely the circumstances in which a minor […]
| AREA OF LAW | Family Law |
| TAGS | capacity, con, consent, disease, health care, medical treatment, minor, venereal |
| FORMAT | Publications |
| FILE | fr019.pdf |
December 1, 1975