Vida Law, the New Zealand Law Foundation and Thomson Reuters are pleased to be associated with the Mental Capacity Law Conference 2019, a full day conference to be held in seven centres across New Zealand in September 2019.

The conferences are aimed at lawyers, health professionals and others working with people who may lack capacity to make certain decisions.

Every full paying registrant will receive a copy of the treatise, I Reuvecamp and J Dawson (ed) Mental Capacity Law in New Zealand (Thomson Reuters, Wellington, 2019) on arrival at the conference.

Attendance at the conference will amount to 6 hours of continuing professional development (CPD).

The programme for the Napier conference is as follows:

• Introduction to capacity law: Professor John Dawson, Faculty of Law, University of Otago
  
  
• Assessment of incapacity: Dr Anthony Duncan, Capital and Coast District Health Board
  
  
• Supported decision-making: Dr Jeanne Snelling, Bioethics Centre and Faculty of Law, University of Otago
  
  
• Providing health or disability services to people who lack the capacity to consent: Iris Reuvecamp, barrister and solicitor, Vida Law
  
  
• Donation of human tissue, gametes and embryos - Professor Nicola Peart, Faculty of Law, University of Otago
  
  
• Children and capacity - Professor Mark Henaghan, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland
  
  
• The future of capacity law: Professor John Dawson, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, and Iris Reuvecamp, barrister and solicitor, Vida Law

In the event of any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Iris Reuvecamp at athenaeducationlimited@gmail.com or by phone on 021 869 361.