1. Statement of participation
Laureana Cortez
has completed the free course including any mandatory tests for:
Changing law: mental capacity legislation
This 10-hour free course looked at how laws are developed to address particular
issues, using legislation relating to mental capacity as an example.
Issue date: 2 June 2016
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This statement does not imply the award of credit points nor the conferment of a University Qualification.
This statement confirms that this free course and all mandatory tests were passed by the learner.
Please go to the course on OpenLearn for full details:
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/changing-law-mental-capacity-legislation/content-
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COURSE CODE: W820_1

2. Changing law: mental capacity legislation
http://www.open.edu/openlearn/people-politics-law/changing-law-mental-capacity-legislation/content-
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Course summary
The aim of this free course, Changing law: mental
capacity legislation, is to consider how legal
problems are identified and how the law develops
to address those problems. It uses the evolution
of legislation on decision making for mentally
incapacitated adults to explore how development
of the law is achieved. Through this study of the
background to, and history of, the passage of
legislation relating to mental capacity, legal
meaning is discussed and explored.
Learning outcomes
By completing this course, the learner should be
able to:
analyse, interpret and apply case law and
legislation, while examining the specific context
of mental capacity
develop an awareness of the context of law
and law reform in the UK
trace and retrieve legal sources and cite these
correctly
develop a critical awareness of contemporary
legal developments by examining the law
reform in a specific area.
Completed study
The learner has completed the following:
Section 1
The need for law reform
Section 2
The process of law reform
Section 3
The road to the statute book
Section 4
Interpreting, applying and challenging the law
Section 5
Conclusion
Section 6
References
http://www.open.edu/openlearn COURSE CODE: W820_1
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