Alison Douglass
Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 27 549 6161
- alison.douglass@barristerschambers.co.nz
University Links
- Position
- Honorary Senior Lecturer
- 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.
- Memberships
- Deputy Chair, Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal appointed October 2018
- Past Chair, Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART membership 2011–2017)
- Past convenor of the New Zealand Law Society Health Law Committee
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