'The necessity must be convincingly shown to exist': standards for compulsory treatment for mental disorder under the Mental Health Act 1983

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'The necessity must be convincingly shown to exist': standards for compulsory treatment for mental disorder under the Mental Health Act 1983

Current English law has few controls on the involuntary treatment of persons detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. In 2001, R (Wilkinson)v. Broadmoor Special Hospital Authority provided some hope that, in conjunction with the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR),...

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Main Author:	Bartlett, Peter
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press 2011
Subjects:	compulsory psychiatric treatment compulsion Herczegfalvy Wilkinson Mental Health Act 1983 best interests mental capacity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1553/

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