Principles of Mental Health Law and Policy

1. History and Context of Mental Health Law and Policy
1: Peter Bartlett and Philip Fennell: History, Policy and Regulation
2: Philip Fennell: Mental Disorder
3: Lance Gable and Lawrence Gostin: Human Rights
4: Peter Bartlett, Philip Fennell and Jean McHale: Capacity
2. The Mental Health System: Advocacy, Services and Accountability
5: Jean McHale: The Legal Regulation of Mental Health Services in the NHS
6: Jean McHale: Scrutiny of Standards in Mental Health Services
7: Luke Clements: Social Services
8: Nicola Glover-Thomas and Judith Laing: Mental Health Professionals
9: Kirsty Keywood: Nominated Person/Advocates
10: Jonathan Herring: Carers
11: Philip Fennell: Tribunal Structure
3. Care and Civil Compulsion: Assessment, Supervision and Treatment
12: Peter Bartlett: Informal Admission
13: Peter Bartlett: Civil Confinement
14: Nell Munro: Treatment
15: John Dawson: Supervised Community Treatment Orders
16: Philip Fennell: Discharge from Hospital
17: Philip Fennell: Removal and Return of Patients and Repatriation of Prisoners
18: Ralph Sandland: Children
4. The Criminal Justice System
19: Philip Fennell: Powers of the Police and the Decision to Prosecute
20: Ronnie Mackay: Mental Disability at the Time of the Offence
21: Ronnie Mackay: Mental Disability at the Time of the Trial
22: Philip Fennell: Mental Disability and the Sentencing Decision
23: Ronnie Mackay: Transfer to Hospital
5. Patient Protection, Rights and Disabilities
24: Jean McHale: Privacy
25: Philip Fennell: Rights and Disabilities of Patients
26: Jean McHale: Mental Health, Mental Capacity and Research
27: Philip Fennell and Lawrence Gostin: Disability Discrimination
28: Philip Fennell: Offences

Edited by Lawrence Gostin, Georgetown University, Jean McHale, University of Birmingham, Philip Fennell, Cardiff University, Ronald D. Mackay, De Montfort University, and Peter Bartlett, University of Nottingham

Peter Bartlett, School of Law, University of Nottingham

Luke Clements, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University

John Dawson, Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Otago and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford

Philip Fennell, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University

Lance Gable, Assistant Professor of Law, Wayne State University

Kris Gledhill, Faculty of Law, University of Auckland

Nicola Glover-Thomas, Reader in Law, Director of Research, Liverpool Law School

Lawrence Gostin, Associate Dean and Professor of Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Jonathan Herring, Exeter College, University of Oxford

Judith Laing, Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol

Jean McHale, Professor of Health Care Law and Director of the Institute of Medical Law, Law School, University of Birmingham

Ronald D. Mackay, Professor of Law, De Montfort University

Nell Munro, School of Law, University of Nottingham

Ralph Sandland, of School of Law, University of Nottingham