In conjunction with Maudsley Learning, the Mental Health and Justice Project is running a one-day Maudsley Masterclass on ‘Approaching Complex Capacity Assessments’ on Tuesday 18th June and again on Wednesday 3rd July at the Ortus Centre, Denmark Hill, London. The Masterclass is directed at any clinician who frequently encounters issues around decision-making capacity whilst caring for their patients, and so should be particularly interesting and useful to psychiatrists. Teachers
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Approaching Complex Capacity Assessments - Maudsley Masterclass
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The future of Advance Decision Making in the Mental Health Act
‘Advance decision making’ refers to people planning for a future when they may become unwell. At present, people living with mental illness in England and Wales have little reassurance that advance decisions they make about their own future mental health treatment will be respected, even those decisions made during times when they are well, which
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Advance decision-making in mental health – Suggestions for legal reform in England and Wales
Mental Health and Justice Workstream 3, ‘Advance Directives’, have published a new paper in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Volume 64, May–June 2019. Advance decision-making in mental health – Suggestions for legal reform in England and Wales is a multidisciplinary analysis of advance decision making in mental health influenced the UK Government review of the Mental Health
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Taking capacity seriously? Ten years of mental capacity disputes before England’s Court of Protection
Abstract Most of the late 20th century wave of reforms in mental capacity or competence law were predicated upon the so-called ‘functional’ model of mental capacity, asking not merely whether a person had a mental disorder or disability but rather whether they were capable of making a specific decision (or decisions) at a specific point of time. This model is now
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The NICE guideline on decision-making and mental capacity: very good try but only two thirds of a banana | Resource
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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Mental Health & Disabilities, King’s Transnational Law Summit 2018
On 12 April 2018, a panel workshop event was held at the King’s Transnational Law Summit, bringing together members from across the Mental Health and Justice work streams and invited panel members, to discuss the moral and political concerns motivating current positions on mental incapacity as a basis for limiting legal capacity and the implications
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Paradigm shifts or mirages?
The Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the compliance of United Kingdom with the CRPD makes a very substantial number of hard-hitting, difficult to read (or refute) observations and recommendations about the ways in which the United Kingdom is letting down the rights of the disabled. Link to
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Hard Capacity Cases - An English Perspective and a Plea for Help
Alex Ruck Keene 7th August 2017
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Advances in Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities
Is mental capacity in the eye of the beholder? The law, at least in England and Wales, divides adults [1] into those who have the mental capacity to make decisions and those who do not. This distinction is crucial, and underpins health and social care practice, not least as it answers the questions: (1) can
