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Fitness to plead, international and comparative perspectives, Ronnie Mackay and Warren Brookbanks

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Fitness to plead

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Ronnie Mackay and Warren Brookbanks

Oxford scholarship online.

international and comparative perspectives

The law relating to fitness to plead is an increasingly important area of the criminal law. While criminalization may be justified whenever an offender commits a sufficiently serious moral wrong requiring that he or she be called to account, the doctrine of fitness to plead calls this principle into question in the case of a person who lacks the capacity or ability to participate meaningfully in a criminal trial. In light of the emerging focus on capacity-based approaches to decision-making and the international human rights requirement that the law should treat defendants fairly, this volume offers a benchmark for the theory and practice of fitness to plead, providing readers with a unique opportunity to consider differing perspectives and debate on the future development and direction of a doctrine which has up till now been under-discussed and under-researched.--, Provided by publisher

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