YEAR 2018

ISBN 978-989-746-200-9

Autonomy and Empowerment: Challenges of Citizens with Disabilities

Luísa Neto, Anabela Costa Leão (Coords.)

Keywords

Diminished capacity; autonomy.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Seminar Autonomy and Empowerment: Challenges of Citizens with Disabilities took place last April 17, 2018 at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, a meeting organised by the project Vulnerability and diversity: fundamental rights in context of Law, Person and Power CIJ Research Line. It took place within the scope of the aforementioned project, financed by FCT (Project FCT UID 443_CIJ). In summary, the project aims to reflect on fundamental rights in a context of diversity. Starting from a pluralist understanding of Constitutional Law that will help to strengthen an inclusive society, today's protection of fundamental rights faces challenges arising from tensions between unity and diversity and from the demands for increased protection in the case of multiple and often crossed vulnerabilities. In fact, these tensions (in terms of prediction and enforcement, e.g. judicial) reveal themselves not only within the socially and culturally diversified State, but also beyond its borders, given the complex network of internormativity and the reality of multilevel Law production. It is a question of discussing and analysing the specific problems of vulnerable groups that demand the specific consideration of the principle of equality and the consideration of a - possibly generic - duty of care of the State, pointing out three basic assumptions of the reflection:
  • Consideration of the protection of vulnerability and duty of “care” as State tasks;
  • Discussion of the relationship between vulnerability and stereotype, with regard to the prediction and enforcement of State rules;
  • Relevance of discrimination, namely multiple/intersectional. 
 One of the development axes is precisely the Autonomy and Empowerment (Disability and the Elderly).

Thus, taking advantage of the context of the Law modification constituted in particular with the discussion of new regimes for the protection of citizens with reduced capacity and with the presentation of the Proposta de Lei 110/8. XIII on the ‘major accompanied’ and the reconfiguration of the interdiction and disablement institutes, the structure in question was addressed, as well as the perspective of supported practice and in particular:
  1. Vulnerability and ‘care’ – multiple discrimination, vulnerability and stereotypes; the duty of care: elements of compared Law on the issue of interdiction/disqualification; vulnerability and independent life; vulnerability and ability to enjoy/exercise their rights; right to free development of personality (constitutionally protected);
  2. Vulnerability and self-determination – critical analysis of the future judicial process for "monitoring of major"; self-determination versus interdiction and Portuguese sociolegal reality; autonomy and interdiction/disqualification; advance directives of will and health care attorney and the new regime of “major accompanied”; new protection regimes for people with reduced capacity.
  3. Vulnerability and protection – the recognition of the necessity and proportionality as criteria that limit the support and protection measures of the person accompanied; patrimonial protection of citizens with disabilities; the (in)sufficiency of the response of family rights and successions to the needs of the most disabled (de iure of de facto).
The Seminar gave another perspective to the previously established discussion network between academics with various affiliations (Portuguese and foreign) – judiciary members, Centre for Independent Living, Association of Porto of Cerebral Palsy, Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, University of Aveiro and Catholic University of Portugal – which have dedicated themselves to the debate on legal and bioethical framework within the scope of the aforementioned research project. This publication is the first step for this path, gathering the doctrinal works that aim to allow the dissemination of this knowledge.
 
Luísa Neto, FDUP and CIJ
Anabela Costa Leão, FDUP and CIJ
 

Table of contents

ÍNDICE

NOTA INTRODUTÓRIA................................................................................................7

ANÁLISE CRÍTICA DO FUTURO PROCESSO JUDICIAL PARA “ACOMPANHAMENTO DE MAIOR”...........................................................................9
Ana Sofia de Magalhães e Carvalho

VULNERABILIDADE(S), DISCRIMINAÇÃO E ESTEREÓTIPOS............................21
Anabela Costa Leão

PROTEÇÃO DOS MAIORES........................................................................................39
João Cottim Oliveira

AUTONOMIA E (IN)CAPACIDADES: PASSADO, PRESENTE E FUTURO............45
Joaquim Correia Gomes

O DIREITO E O DEVER DE CUIDADO:ELEMENTOS DE DIREITO COMPARADO QUANTO
AO ACOMPANHAMENTO DE MAIORES.................................................................71
Jorge Gracia Ibáñez

VULNERABILIDADE E CAPACIDADE DE GOZO E EXERCÍCIO DE DIREITOS À LUZ DO DIREITO AO LIVRE DESENVOLVIMENTO DA PERSONALIDADE CONSTITUCIONALMENTE PREVISTO...................................................................89
Luísa Neto

O RECONHECIMENTO DA PROIBIÇÃO DO EXCESSO COMO CRITÉRIO DELIMITADOR DAS MEDIDAS DE ACOMPANHAMENTO DAS PESSOAS COM DEFICIÊNCIA.........................................................................101
Mariana Fontes da Costa

A TUTELA PATRIMONIAL DOS CIDADÃOS PORTADORES DE DEFICIÊNCIA............................................................................117
Marta Rosas

OS NOVOS REGIMES DE PROTEÇÃO DAS PESSOAS COM CAPACIDADE DIMINUÍDA............................................................................125
Paula Távora Vítor

VULNERABILIDADE E VIDA INDEPENDENTE....................................................147
Rui Machado

(IN)SUFICIÊNCIA DA RESPOSTA DO DIREITO DA FAMÍLIA E DO DIREITO DAS SUCESSÕES ÀS NECESSIDADES DOS ADULTOS ESPECIALMENTE VULNERÁVEIS...............................................157
Rute Teixeira Pedro