Daisy Cheung

Daisy is Lecturer of Medical Law and Ethics at Edinburgh Law School. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh, she was Deputy Director and Research Fellow of the Centre for Medical Ethics and Law (CMEL) at the University of Hong Kong. She currently remains a Research Fellow of CMEL, and is a member of the Mental Health Law Committee of the Law Society of Hong Kong.

Daisy’s research focuses on mental health and capacity law and ethics. She has previously written on a number of issues related to compulsory treatment (both in the hospital and the community) and capacity law in Hong Kong. She has also published on public mental health ethics in the Covid-19 context, and has written on mental capacity law and ethics across several contexts, including two funded projects, one on adult guardianship regimes and one on best interests assessments on behalf of individuals lacking capacity. As a part of the former project, she co-edited a collection on advance medical directives across 16 jurisdictions in Asia (Cambridge University Press 2023).

Her most recent work includes an ongoing project exploring the restoration of decision-making capacity and whether this can be properly accommodated under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 in England and Wales.