To celebrate Metro Éireann’s 11th anniversary, we decided to revisit our first editorial published in April 2000. In the coming weeks we will also be reprinting articles from the past decade to give our readers today a greater insight into the evolution
The ‘Bournewood case’ in the UK concerned a 49-year-old man with autism, who, it was agreed, lacked capacity (a legal term referring to a person’s competence to understand the nature and consequences of decisions he or she makes).