This paper considers three possible justifications for psychiatric compulsion - dangerousness, capacity and therapeutic benefit
In this study, as capacity is ‘decision-specific’, we have assessed the capacity of men and women to...
Background Mental capacity is central to legal and ethical debates on the use of compulsion in psych...
Objectives: The mental health legislation of most developed countries includes either a dangerousnes...
This paper considers three possible justifications for psychiatric compulsion - dangerousness, capac...
Concepts of mental capacity are taking on an increased importance in the mental health law of the Un...
This article looks at the role of compulsion in mental health law as it applies to civil patients. I...
Calls for a new Mental Health Act for England and Wales, and the government’s response to those call...
In England and Wales mental health services need to take account of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and...
In this paper, the second of two, we consider the capacity of those assessed with respect to their a...
The British Government published a draft Mental Health Bill for England and Wales on 26 June 2002. I...
I agree that someone’s lack of mental capacity, or their inability to make proper choices, as I woul...
Current English law has few controls on the involuntary treatment of persons detained under the Ment...
It would be a mistake to think of mental health law as a generic form of law directed at a particula...
Mental health legislation is often criticised for being fundamentally inconsistent with a rights-bas...
In this article, Professor Gunn discusses autonomy, consent and compulsion in mental health treatmen...
In this study, as capacity is ‘decision-specific’, we have assessed the capacity of men and women to...
Background Mental capacity is central to legal and ethical debates on the use of compulsion in psych...
Objectives: The mental health legislation of most developed countries includes either a dangerousnes...
This paper considers three possible justifications for psychiatric compulsion - dangerousness, capac...
Concepts of mental capacity are taking on an increased importance in the mental health law of the Un...
This article looks at the role of compulsion in mental health law as it applies to civil patients. I...
Calls for a new Mental Health Act for England and Wales, and the government’s response to those call...
In England and Wales mental health services need to take account of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and...
In this paper, the second of two, we consider the capacity of those assessed with respect to their a...
The British Government published a draft Mental Health Bill for England and Wales on 26 June 2002. I...
I agree that someone’s lack of mental capacity, or their inability to make proper choices, as I woul...
Current English law has few controls on the involuntary treatment of persons detained under the Ment...
It would be a mistake to think of mental health law as a generic form of law directed at a particula...
Mental health legislation is often criticised for being fundamentally inconsistent with a rights-bas...
In this article, Professor Gunn discusses autonomy, consent and compulsion in mental health treatmen...
In this study, as capacity is ‘decision-specific’, we have assessed the capacity of men and women to...
Background Mental capacity is central to legal and ethical debates on the use of compulsion in psych...
Objectives: The mental health legislation of most developed countries includes either a dangerousnes...