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  • World Psychiatry, Volume 18, Issue 1, February 2019
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    • Jan 13, 2019
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    The latest issue of World Psychiatry, Volume 18, Issue 1 (February 2019), features several articles on the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and capacity, and are free to access here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/20515545/2019/18/1

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  • Modernising the Mental Health Act report
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    • Dec 06, 2018
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    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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  • The NICE guideline on decision-making and mental capacity: very good try but only two thirds of a banana | Resource
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    • Dec 03, 2018
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    Author: Alex Ruck Keene To some extent, those responsible for pulling together the NICE guideline (NG 108) on decision-making and mental capacity published on 3 October were in an impossible position.  They could not rewrite the Code of Practice, despite the fact that real life has caught up with and substantially overtaken the Code.   To do so

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  • Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities | Resource
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    • Feb 11, 2018
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    Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities United Nations Human Rights Council Thirty-seventh session 26 February–23 March 2018 PDF Download “The Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Catalina Devandas Aguilar, submits the present report to the Human Rights Council pursuant to Council resolutions 26/20 and 35/6. “It

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  • Mapping and Understanding Exclusion in Europe | Resource
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    • Jan 28, 2018
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    Mapping  Exclusion is one of Mental Health Europe’s main pieces of work and consists of mapping institutional and community care in the field of mental health in Europe. (Downloadable version) The second and revised version of Mapping and Understanding Exclusion was prepared together with The Tizard Centre, University of Kent and officially launched in January 2018. Mapping and

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  • Is Involuntary Placement and Non-Consensual Treatment Ever Compliant with UN Human Rights Standards?
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    • Jan 09, 2018
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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

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  • Concluding-Observations-CRPD-Committee-UK
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    • Sep 27, 2017
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    Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Concluding observations on the initial report of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Link to PDF

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  • Compulsory Mental Health Treatment: When Should Judges Get Involved?
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    • Sep 14, 2017
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    Tribunals Judiciary – Link Speech by Judge Mark Hinchliffe, Deputy Chamber President First-tier Tribunal (Health Education and Social Care Chamber) The Centre for Medical Ethics and Law – University of Hong Kong, in association with The Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Cambridge, The Ethox Centre, University of Oxford, and the Hong Kong

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  • A Mental Health Act Fit for Tomorrow
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    • Jul 10, 2017
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    An Agenda for Reform Mental Health Alliance June 2017 “The Mental Health Act is not fit for purpose. We urgently call for a review of the Act, so that together we can protect the rights and improve care for some of the most vulnerable people in the health system.” Link  

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  • Article 12: Equal recognition before the law
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    • Jun 15, 2017
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    Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Eleventh session 31 March–11 April 2014 General comment No. 1 (2014) Article 12: Equal recognition before the law View or download the article

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  • United Nations: Human Rights Council Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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    • Jun 15, 2017
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    United Nations General Assembly Human Rights Council Thirty-fourth session 27 February-24 March 2017 Mental health and human rights Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights View or download the article 

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  • Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health
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    • Jun 15, 2017
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    Report of the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health View or download the article

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  • Guidelines on article 14 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
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    • Jun 15, 2017
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    Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Guidelines on article 14 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities The right to liberty and security of persons with disabilities View or download the article

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  • Article 19: Living independently and being included in the community
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    • Jun 15, 2017
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    Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Draft General Comment No. 5 (2017) Article 19: Living independently and being included in the community View or download article

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