MENTAL HEALTH
MENTAL HEALTH LAW
5TH EDITION
Brenda Hale
Mental Health Law examines all the key issues, from informal and compulsory care and treatment of people with mental disorders to the safeguards against unjustified deprivation of liberty and the powers of tribunals and the courts. Decision-making on behalf of people who lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves and the role of mental health professionals, doctors and families in making these decisions is given particular attention. The relevance of mental disorder in the criminal justice system and its effect upon other legal rights such as voting, marrying and making wills are also covered.
- Brings together all the law relating to mentally disordered and mentally disabled people, covering both the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 as well as detailed analysis of their 2007 amendments
- Details associated regulations and Codes of Practice under the Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act
- Guides the practitioner and mental health worker through the legal process of dealing with the mentally ill from formal and informal admission to hospital to the role of social workers, doctors and other professionals
- Provides definitions for and explanations of basic principles and terminology, including the legal definition of mental disorder
- Examines the relevance of mental disorder in the criminal justice system and its effect upon legal rights such as voting, marrying and making wills
- Analyses the law in its historical context and relates this to current developments in mental health law
- Includes chapters on the powers and procedures of Tribunals, the Court of Protection and other courts, and on disordered offenders, police powers, pre-trial procedure and sentencing
- Discusses the grounds for compulsory powers
- Explains the impact of the Human Rights Act and case law from both the UK and the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
