R (Parkin) v His Majesty’s Assistant Coroner for Inner London (East) [2024] EWHC 744 (Admin) is an important, but curious,… Read more
Tag: Mental health
Birth arrangements, choice and mental ill health – in conversation with Dr Sam Halliday
In this ‘in conversation’ with Dr Sam Halliday, we consider why the courts in England & Wales take the approach… Read more
If you do not know you are doing wrong, can you sue for not being prevented from doing it?
[Update, the Supreme Court allowed the defendants’ appeal on 21 January 2026; see here] If you have been found by… Read more
The European Court of Human Rights: mental health detention and Articles 3 and 5 ECHR
Strasbourg means what it says in relation to the tightening of the criteria for admission and detention in the context… Read more
Insight and mental health care: the perspective of those whose insight is being questioned: in conversation with Dr Magda Furgalska
In this ‘in conversation’ with, I talk to Dr Magda Furgalska about her research into people’s lived experiences of ‘insight’… Read more
‘Warehousing’ and the limits of appropriate treatment under the MHA 1983 – important new Upper Tribunal case
The issue facing the Upper Tribunal in SF v Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership [2023] UKUT 205 (AAC) was crisply… Read more
Suicide risk, the ECHR balancing exercise and the inherent jurisdiction – a Northern Irish perspective
A Health and Social Care Trust v JU [2023] NIFam 12 provides an interesting take on the extent of positive… Read more
Section 117 MHA, after-care, and ordinary residence: the Supreme Court gives clarity
The Supreme Court has clarified one aspect of the perennially thorny question of responsibility for funding after-care under s.117 MHA… Read more
Self-binding directives: the view from Europe – in discussion with Matthé Scholten
In this ‘in conversation with’, I talk to Dr Matthé Scholten about self-binding directives, coercion in mental health treatment and… Read more
Book Review: Making Decisions in Compulsory Mental Health Work
Making Decisions in Compulsory Mental Health Work (edited by Jill Hemmington and Sarah Vicary, Policy Press, 2023, 203 pages, c… Read more