A slightly different question is about whether the MacCAT-T can be applied in different legal contexts. The legal history in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain has many common roots, and because of this many people assume that the same criteria apply in these different regions. However, it is not always obvious that this is so. In 2005 The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) was passed in England and Wales that, at least on the surface, seems to embrace different criteria from the ones listed ab