Clause 1 - The Principles
Mental Capacity Bill
2:30 pm
Mr Tim Boswell (Shadow Minister, Home Affairs; Daventry, Conservative)
What is troubling me is the view, which might be rather Olympian, that rights are inalienable anyway—if they are given under law, there is no need to talk about them—whereas freedoms and their restraint are a real issue. We will return to that again in relation to the Bournewood case. There was a certain uneasiness about the joining together of rights and freedoms, which is perhaps the motive for tabling the amendment.