In this ‘in conversation’ with Dr Sam Halliday, we consider why the courts in England & Wales take the approach… Read more
Tag: Mental health
If you do not know you are doing wrong, can you sue for not being prevented from doing it?
If you have been found by a criminal court that you did not know what you were doing was wrong… 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
Supporting decision-making and reducing coercion in mental health care – in conversation with Dr Piers Gooding
In this ‘in conversation with’ across time zones, I talk to Dr Piers Gooding about his work in relation to… Read more