Keyword: «legal status of people with disabilities»

Legal capacity is one of the basic elements of legal status. As stated in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities legal capacity regulates the need to exercise the rights and meet the legitimate interests of people with disabilities. However, in practice, along with many other people with disabilities, the legal status of people with mental and intellectual disabilities can be questioned. In some cases, such citizens are deprived of legal capacity on a formal basis, which leads to exclusion in the implementation of their own intentions, which is a problem of the law enforcement system.