ANZAPPL Annual General Meeting

The 40th Annual General Meeting of the Association will take place at 6pm (AEDT) on Tuesday 24 November 2020, via Zoom. All active members of the Association are welcome to attend, but it is essential that you register your attendance in advance.

Active members of the Association can access the agenda and relevant forms here.

Nomination and proxy voting forms must be returned to the Secretary by 6pm (AEDT) on Monday 23 November 2020. Please email forms to secretary@anzappl.org.

Members who attend the AGM will also gain access to a special lecture delivered by Dr Eilionóir Flynn, Established Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP), National University of Ireland Galway.

Disentangling capacity assessments from discovery of will and preferences – the radical promise of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

This lecture will address three major challenges that arise from different interpretations of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The first, is the issue of direct and indirect discrimination in functional assessments of mental capacity which are used to determine an individual’s legal capacity, for example, in respect of consent to treatment. The second is the dilemma of advance decisions and how these can be framed differently without using functional assessments of mental capacity as the trigger for when an advance decision should enter into force. The final issue is the need for a human rights compliant response in a situation where the individual's preference(s) appears to conflict with his/her will.

Dr Eilionóir Flynn is an Established Professor at the School of Law and Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy (CDLP), National University of Ireland Galway. She is a graduate of University College Cork (BCL, PhD), and received a scholarship from the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences for her PhD research on advocacy for persons with disabilities in Ireland and Australia. In her current role, Eilionóir represents the CDLP on a number of EU-funded research projects in the fields of access to justice, EU implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, active citizenship and disability (DISCIT), and legal capacity reform (PERSON).