PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - M D Pérez-Cárceles
AU  - E Osuna
AU  - A Luna
TI  - Informed consent of the minor. Implications of present day Spanish law
AID  - 10.1136/jme.28.5.326
DP  - 2002 Oct 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 326--326
VI  - 28
IP  - 5
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/28/5/326.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/28/5/326.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2002 Oct 01; 28
AB  - In Spain, any person under the age of 18 is a minor. Generally, minors lack the legal capacity to take legally binding actions because they are deemed incapable of legally binding consent. Spanish civil law recognises, however, that the child, in accordance with the law and being sufficiently mature, may act for himself. It stands, then, that consent, as expressed by the “sufficiently mature” minor, should be legally valid.