Case-based reasoning relies heavily on the availability of a highly competent case base to make high-quality decisions.
And Mr Mitchell, despite a fondness for New Labourisms (in the speech he praised DfID as a "key, joined-up, integrated department") makes a competent, if familiar, case for keeping the levels up: it is right to help the weak, and often surprisingly cheap.
If in a particular case a competent minor is capable of making a voluntary decision about research participation they should be allowed to do so.
Project Dulce is a culturally competent diabetes case management program that includes peer-led self-management training.
For instance, Crispin Wright and Stewart Shapiro say a competent speaker can faultlessly classify the borderline case as a positive instance while another competent speaker can faultlessly classify the case as a negative instance.
That information — which the lawyers are filing as documents in the United States District Court here — includes a letter by the chief of staff to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan declaring that the Afghan government does not want custody of the detainees and that it "favors these individuals having access to a fair judicial process, and adjudication of their case by a competent court".
Should this not also be the case with a competent child?
In the case of a competent child (or emancipated child), it is our view that he or she should able to refuse to participate irrespective of the parent's wishes.
The 1949 Geneva Convention requires the establishment of a "competent tribunal" to determine, on a case-by-case basis, if there is any doubt, whether a detainee should be designated a P.O.W.
The principle of autonomy, for example, might conflict with the principle of beneficence in cases where a competent adult patient refuses to accept life-saving treatment.
