Rebecca Stickler was a specialist Court of Protection and Public Law Barrister. She left the Bar in December 2018 and went to continue her work with mental capacity law through the project, Judging Values and Participation in Mental Capacity Law.
The project is a three-year, interdisciplinary research collaboration exploring how judges and their values influence the principles and procedures in mental capacity law, particularly when deciding how P participates in legal proceedings. The purpose of the project is to work towards policy initiatives and professional development tools to help achieve justice for persons with disabilities, fostering their participation in legal proceedings around capacity and best interests through a better understanding of how values influence and shape the deliberation of judges.
