Mental Health Law

Basant K. Puri MA PhD MB BChir BSc (Hons) MathSci MRCPsych DipStat MMath Professor of Imaging and Psychiatry, MRI Unit, Imaging Sciences Department, Faculty of Medicine, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital and Imperial College, London; Honorary Consultant in Imaging, Department of Radiology, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK Robert A. Brown MA Course Director for the Approved Social Workers course in South West England, Mental Health Act Commissioner, Visiting Fellow Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK Heather J. McKee MB ChB BAO MRCPsych LLM Consultant Psychiatrist, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London; Honorary Senior Lecturer, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK Ian H. Treasaden MB BS LRCP MRCS MRCPsych Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Clinical Director, Three Bridges Medium Secure Unit, West London Mental Health NHS Trust, London; Hononary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK

Preface
Chapter 1 History of Mental Health legislation
Chapter 2 Definitions used in Mental Health legislation
Chapter 3 Compulsory admission to hospital
Chapter 4 Guardianship and supervised aftercare
Chapter 5 Patients concerned in criminal proceedings or under sentence
Chapter 6 Consent to treatment
Chapter 7 Mental health, medication and the law (co-written by Dr Christine Dixon)
Chapter 8 Professional liability and negligence
Chapter 9 Mental health review tribunals
Chapter 10 The role of the Mental Health Act Commission
Chapter 11 Code of practice, including its legal standing
Chapter 12 Removal and return of patients to and from England and Wales
Chapter 13 Management of property and affairs of patients
Chapter 14 Approved Social Workers
Chapter 15 The assessment of risk of violence
Chapter 16 Suicidal patients
Chapter 17 Children’s Mental Health Law (by Dr. Paul J. Laking)
Chapter 18 Old age
Chapter 19 People with learning disabilities (by Dr. Angela Hassiotis)
Chapter 20 Race, culture and mental health
Chapter 21 Mental capacity and international comparison of mental health legislation
Chapter 22 The Human Rights Act 1998
Appendices
(i) Legal cases
(ii) Summary of civil treatment codes
(iii) The police, the courts and mental health
(iv) Flowchart of decisions involving consent to treatment
(v) Sample forms
Index