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Intellectual Disability (Compulsory Care and Rehabilitation) Act 2003

Status and rights of care recipients - General status and specific rights - Specific rights of care recipients

54: Right to legal advice

You could also call this:

"Getting help from a lawyer when you need it"

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If you are a care recipient, you can ask a lawyer for advice about your status and rights. You can also ask a lawyer for advice on other legal issues that affect you. The lawyer you choose must be allowed to see you when they want to.

If a lawyer agrees to help you, they must be permitted to visit you when they request to do so. This means that the people taking care of you must let your lawyer see you when your lawyer wants to. You have the right to get advice from a lawyer and to meet with them privately.

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Part 5Status and rights of care recipients
General status and specific rights: Specific rights of care recipients

54Right to legal advice

  1. Every care recipient is entitled to request a lawyer to advise the care recipient on his or her status and rights as a care recipient, or on any other legal issue.

  2. If the lawyer agrees to act for the care recipient, the lawyer must be permitted access to the care recipient when he or she requests to see the care recipient.

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