MENTAL HEALTH
MENTAL HEALTH ACT MANUAL
14TH EDITION
Richard Jones
The 14th edition of the Mental Health Act Manual provides an essential guide to the Mental Health Act for mental health and legal professionals, providing clear instructions on the Act and how it governs their working practises. This invaluable guide covers the advances in this rapidly changing area of law due to the number of judicial reviews, amount of case law and developments concerning the European Convention on Human Rights:
- Provides easy access to the law regarding mental health plus explanatory commentary to help ensure that the law is fully understood
- Includes information about what the relevant law is and how it impacts on a case
- Explains the impact of the Act, detailing how each section of the MHA 1983 has been affected by the 2007 Act
- Examines amendments made to the Mental Health Act by the Legal Services Act 2007, the Health and Social Care Act 2008, the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008 and the Health Act 2009
- Incorporates a significant amount of new case law
- Provides guidance on the new Regulations and Rules that are a result of the 2007 Act as well as cross references to the new Code of Practice
- Includes all the relevant primary and secondary legislation on mental health law with detailed annotations
- Comprises the new Tribunal Rules, which will be annotated, and the associated Practice Directions
- Covers the amendments to the Mental Health Act made by the Health and Social Care Act 2008. They include the abolition of the Mental Health Act Commission and its replacement by the Care Quality Commission
- Provides cross referencing to the Reference Guide to the Mental Health Act
- Includes references to the Mental Health (Hospital, Guardianship, Community Treatment and Consent to Treatment) (Wales) Regulations 2008
