-- Background to the legal system and the mental capacity act
-- Human rights and statutory principles for governing decision making
-- Definition of mental capacity
-- Making decisions in the best interests of others
-- Lasting powers of attorney
-- Court of protection, court appointed deputies, the office of the public guardian and visitors
-- Independent mental capacity advocates
-- Advance decisions
-- Research
-- Protection of vulnerable adults and accountability
-- Children and young persons
-- Mental capacity and mental disorder
-- Organ and tissue removal, storage and use
-- The informal carer
-- Wales
-- Implementation, resources, and code of practice
-- Postscript
-- Human rights and statutory principles for governing decision making
-- Definition of mental capacity
-- Making decisions in the best interests of others
-- Lasting powers of attorney
-- Court of protection, court appointed deputies, the office of the public guardian and visitors
-- Independent mental capacity advocates
-- Advance decisions
-- Research
-- Protection of vulnerable adults and accountability
-- Children and young persons
-- Mental capacity and mental disorder
-- Organ and tissue removal, storage and use
-- The informal carer
-- Wales
-- Implementation, resources, and code of practice
-- Postscript