Alison Douglass
| Position | Honorary Senior Lecturer |
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| Department | Bioethics Centre |
| Qualifications | LLB ( University of Canterbury) MBHL (University of Otago) |
| Teaching | Guest lecturer, Dunedin School of Medicine Advanced Learning in Medicine ALM-5. |
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Research
Alison was the 2014 recipient of the New Zealand Law Foundation International Research Fellowship. Her legal research project, based from the Bioethics Centre, involved a comparative analysis of English mental capacity law with New Zealand law, the Protection of Personal Rights Act 1988 and the Code of Health and Disability Consumers' Rights. Alison published a law reform report: A Douglass, Mental Capacity: Updating New Zealand’s Law and Practice (Report for the New Zealand Law Foundation, Dunedin, July 2016) ISBN 978-0-473-40973-9
Read the report at:
www.alisondouglass.co.nz
In 2017 the Law Foundation awarded a further grant to write a book to be published in 2019, (Victoria University Press) “Assessment of Capacity: A New Zealand Guide” with Dr Greg Young, consultant psychiatrist and Professor John McMillan, Bioethics Centre, co-authors of the practice guidance: “A Toolkit for Assessing Capacity'.
Additional details
Barrister, practising from Barristers Chambers, Dunedin, specialising in health and disability law and ethics. http://www.barristerschambers.co.nzPublications
Vara, A., Young, G., Douglass, A., Sundram, F., Henning, M., & Cheung, G. (2020). General practitioners and decision-making capacity assessment: The experiences and educational needs of New Zealand general practitioners. Family Practice, 37(4), 535-540. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmaa022
Douglass, A., Young, G., & McMillan, J. (2020). Assessment of mental capacity: A New Zealand guide for doctors and lawyers. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 607p.
Snelling, J., & Douglass, A. (2019). Legal capacity and supported decision-making. In I. Reuvecamp & J. Dawson (Eds.), Mental capacity law in New Zealand. (pp. 163-177). Wellington, New Zealand: Thomson Reuters.
Douglass, A. (2019). Best interests: A standard for decision-making. In I. Reuvecamp & J. Dawson (Eds.), Mental capacity law in New Zealand. (pp. 63-77). Wellington, New Zealand: Thomson Reuters.
Douglass, A., & Legge, M. (2019). Regulating, surrogacy in New Zealand: Evolving policy and cautious liberalism under the HART Act. In A. Masselot & R. Powell (Eds.), Perspectives on commercial surrogacy in New Zealand: Ethics, law, policy and rights. (pp. 1-24). Christchurch, New Zealand: Centre for Commercial & Corporate Law, University of Canterbury.
Douglass, A., Young, G., & McMillan, J. (2020). Assessment of mental capacity: A New Zealand guide for doctors and lawyers. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 607p.
Authored Book - Research
Douglass, A. (2019). Best interests: A standard for decision-making. In I. Reuvecamp & J. Dawson (Eds.), Mental capacity law in New Zealand. (pp. 63-77). Wellington, New Zealand: Thomson Reuters.
Chapter in Book - Research
Douglass, A., & Legge, M. (2019). Regulating, surrogacy in New Zealand: Evolving policy and cautious liberalism under the HART Act. In A. Masselot & R. Powell (Eds.), Perspectives on commercial surrogacy in New Zealand: Ethics, law, policy and rights. (pp. 1-24). Christchurch, New Zealand: Centre for Commercial & Corporate Law, University of Canterbury.
Chapter in Book - Research
Snelling, J., & Douglass, A. (2019). Legal capacity and supported decision-making. In I. Reuvecamp & J. Dawson (Eds.), Mental capacity law in New Zealand. (pp. 163-177). Wellington, New Zealand: Thomson Reuters.
Chapter in Book - Research
Douglass, A. (2017). Mental capacity. In K. A. Morris (Ed.), Cole's medical practice in New Zealand. (13th ed.) (pp. 225-245). Wellington, New Zealand: Medical Council of New Zealand.
Chapter in Book - Other
Vara, A., Young, G., Douglass, A., Sundram, F., Henning, M., & Cheung, G. (2020). General practitioners and decision-making capacity assessment: The experiences and educational needs of New Zealand general practitioners. Family Practice, 37(4), 535-540. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmaa022
Journal - Research Article
Douglass, A., & Ballantyne, A. (2019). From protectionism to inclusion: A New Zealand perspective on health-related research involving adults incapable of giving informed consent. Bioethics, 33, 384-392. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12509
Journal - Research Article
Douglass, A. (2018). Rethinking necessity and best interests in New Zealand mental capacity law. Medical Law International, 18(1), 3-34. doi: 10.1177/0968533218762240
Journal - Research Article
Young, G., Douglass, A., & Davison, L. (2018). What do doctors know about assessing decision-making capacity? New Zealand Medical Journal, 131(1471), 58-71. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Journal - Research Article
Daniels, K., & Douglass, A. (2008). Access to genetic information by donor offspring and donors: Medicine, policy and law in New Zealand. Medicine & Law, 27(1), 131-146.
Journal - Research Article
Douglass, A. (2008). The new Human Tissue Act. New Zealand Law Journal, (October), 377-379.
Journal - Research Article
Douglass, A., & Crampton, P. (2004). Protection of health research participants in the United States: A review of two cases. New Zealand Bioethics Journal, (June), 6-12.
Journal - Research Article
