The final report of the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act is published today. The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 has set out recommendations (pdf) for the UK government on how the Act and associated practice needs to change. It cites the work of the Mental Health & Justice project on p216
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Modernising the Mental Health Act report
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Legal capacity, mental capacity and supported decision-making: Report from a panel event
Online publication of a collaborative paper ‘Legal capacity, mental capacity and supported decision-making: Report from a panel event’ in the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. Authors: Jillian Craigie, Michael Bach, Sándor Gurbai, Arlene Kanter, Scott Y.H.Kim, Oliver Lewis, Graham Morgan Abstract Against a backdrop of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities having been
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MHJ at the King’s Policy Institute
MHJ has contributed to a King’s Policy Institute Policy briefing document entitled: “The Future of the Mental Health Act”. This has been based on 2 policy labs and a wide range of contributions. The briefing document, is feeding into the UK Government’s independent review of the Mental Health Act. To coincide with the publication of the interim
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Is Involuntary Placement and Non-Consensual Treatment Ever Compliant with UN Human Rights Standards?
A Survey of UN Reports (2006-2017) Gurbai, S., Martin, W. In recent years, the issues of involuntary placement and involuntary treatment for mental health conditions have been addressed on a number of different occasions within the UN system. There is no unified UN position on the question of whether involuntary placement and treatment can be lawful under
