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Hearing Begins In Halifax For Challenge Of Incompetent Persons Act

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 25 Apr, 2016 11:32 AM
  • Hearing Begins In Halifax For Challenge Of Incompetent Persons Act
HALIFAX — A court hearing is underway for a Nova Scotia man fighting a provincial law that limits the rights of people with intellectual disabilities.
 
Landon Webb is challenging the province's Incompetent Persons Act, arguing that it infringes on his rights and freedoms.
 
His parents say their 25-year-old son functions at the level of a 10 or 12-year-old, but Webb says he is not incompetent and wants to be free to live a normal life.
 
Webb did not appear in Nova Scotia Supreme Court on Monday morning, but his lawyer, Suzanne Litke, is presenting to Justice James Chipman on Webb's behalf.
 
Webb's parents say he's been diagnosed with autism, has developmental disabilities and can have severe anxiety and mood swings.
 
The provincial government said last month that it would not oppose the constitutional challenge of the Act and would change the law.

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