Man challenging Nova Scotia law has parents removed as legal guardians
Posted Jun 28, 2016 07:24:56 AM.
Last Updated Jun 28, 2016 10:08:16 AM.
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HALIFAX – A Nova Scotia man who is challenging the province’s Incompetent Persons Act has had his parents removed as his legal guardians.
Landon Webb is fighting to overcome limits on his rights as a person with intellectual disabilities and to have his “mentally incompetent” status overturned.
His parents have said their son functions at the level of a 10 or 12-year-old, but Webb disagrees and wants to be free to live a normal life.
At a hearing in Nova Scotia Supreme Court today, Webb was declared medically competent though he will require some monitoring.
Lawyers for his parents also told the court they had agreed to be removed as his guardians.
His case attracted attention last October after he left a rehabilitation centre for several weeks, was found safe in Edmonton and returned to Nova Scotia, where he appeared in local media saying he is not incompetent.
The province said in April it would not oppose Webb’s constitutional challenge of the Incompetent Persons Act, and promised to either repeal or amend the law.
