Members of the Mental Health and Justice research project gathered across the workstreams, alongside participants of the Service User Advisory Group (SUAG) the Advisory Board and Bethlem Gallery, for the MHJ Colloquium 2019. Convening at the Wellcome Trust in London on 16 September, each workstream presented the developments and future areas of research to the
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Mental Health and Justice colloquium 2019
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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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Concluding-Observations-CRPD-Committee-UK
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?
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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Hard Capacity Cases - An English Perspective and a Plea for Help
Alex Ruck Keene 7th August 2017
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Article 12: Equal recognition before the law
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
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
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
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
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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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
