Oliver Lewis: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Sector leader
- Role
- barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, author of Coercive Control & Vulnerable Adults
- Quoted on
- Medical ethics & regulation, Adult social care & reform
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 29 Sept 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The courts seems to have introduced a new concept of 'incapacitous consent' into law. The judgement ignores decades of evidence from disability studies that some people, by reason of their disability, are more suggestible, more prone to persuasion, more vulnerable to institutionalisation.”
What Oliver Lewis has said
“The judgment ignores decades of evidence from disability studies that some people, by reason of their disability, are more suggestible, more prone to persuasion, more vulnerable to institutionalisation, to normalising abuse and neglect.”
barrister at Doughty Street Chambers · Adult social care & reform · 27 Aug 2026 · Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warn ↗
Where Oliver Lewis has been quoted
- What next for care providers after Supreme Court overturns deprivation of liberty ruling?caring-times.co.uk · 29 Sept 2026
- Ruling removes ‘vital’ UK safeguards for severely disabled people, charities warntheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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