article_snippet: Some local authorities have been known to make disabled couples perform a capacity assessment to determine whether Some local authorities are sufficiently able to have sexual relations and get married without a high risk of abuse or exploitation.
article_snippet: But Section 1 of the Mental Capacity Act says a person must be assumed to have capacity until Section 1 of the Mental Capacity Act is established that they do not.
article_snippet: Disabled people often have to fight the assumption that because Disabled people have a learning disability Disabled people lack the capacity to marry or to have sexual relations .
article_snippet: Mencap's chief executive, Jan Tregelles, said last year: 'For someone with a learning disability to have their right to marry so seriously interfered with is not only heartbreaking for the couple and their families, but a denial of their basic human rights. '
article_snippet: Professionals and wider society are too quick to make prejudiced and ill-informed judgments about what people with a learning disability can and can't do.'
article_snippet: Sexual health charity FPA ran a campaign a few years ago to highlight the rights of people with learning disabilities to have relationships.
article_snippet: The fight for the right to marry is part of a wider battle for people with learning disabilities to have a family.