Mental Health The New Law

by Fennell, Phil

• ISBN13: 9781846610745
• ISBN10: 1846610745
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-30
• Publisher: Jordan Publishing Limited

Summary

The Mental Health Act 2007 will bring about the first major amendment of mental health legislation since the Mental Health Act 1983.Mental Health: The New Law provides a comprehensive, authoritative and practical guide to the new legislation and its implications for lawyers, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses and other mental health professionals.This new book explains in clear terms the key changes in mental health law introduced by the new Act including:The new definition of mental disorder, and the changes to the exclusions in relation to sexual deviancyThe changes to the 'treatability' testThe relevance of incapacity and impaired decision-making to decisions to detain and treat without consentNew powers concerning Supervised Community Treatment and extended leaveChanges in the law regarding sentencing of mentally disordered offendersNew provisions in relation to consent to treatmentNew 'Bournewood' procedures to deprive mentally incapacitated adults of their libertyChanges in procedures and personnel appearing before Mental Health Review TribunalsAppendices to the book include the full text of the Mental Health Act 2007 and the supporting Code of PracticeContentsBackgroundChanges to the Conditions of Compulsion: The New Definition of Mental DisorderStatutory Powers and Responsibilities: The Power and Duties of Mental Health Professionals, Relatives and CarersProcedures for Detention of Non-offender Patients Under the Mental Health Act and Under the Mental Capacity ActSupervised Community Treatment and Extended LeavePowers to Detain Mentally Disordered Offenders in HospitalConsent to Treatment for Mental DisorderThe Mental Health Review TribunalCriminal Offences under the Mental Health ActAppendices

Author Biography

Phil Fennell is a Professor of Law at Cardiff University and was specialist legal adviser to the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Committee on the Mental Health Bill 2004 and to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on the Mental Health Bill 2006.

Table of Contents

Background	p. 1
Overview of the Mental Health Act 2007	p. 17
'Mental Disorder' and the Availability of Appropriate Treatment	p. 45
Statutory Powers and Responsibilities: the Powers and Duties of Mental Health Staff	p. 71
Relatives, Independant Mental Health Advocates, and Hospital Managers	p. 97
Powers of detention under the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005	p. 119
Detention of Mentally Disordered Offenders	p. 161
Compulsory Powers in the Community	p. 201
Discharge and review of the lawfulness of detention by Mental Health Review Tribunals and the courts	p. 221
Consent to Treatment for Mental Disorder	p. 265
Children	p. 303
Criminal Offences and Transfer of Patients Between Jurisdictions	p. 327
Mental Health Act 1983 (1983 c 20) (as amended by the Mental Health Act 2007)	p. 341
Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (2004 c 28) (as Amended by the Mental Health Act 2007)	p. 509
Mental Health Act 2007 (2007 c 12) (Remaining Provisions)	p. 531
Index	p. 639
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