A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention

It has long been the case in jurisprudence under the European Convention on Human Rights that mental disorder must be of a certain severity in order to justify detention, but there has been little meaningful debate as to what that means. The question is relevant not merely to the European Court of...

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Main Author: Bartlett, Peter
Format: Article
Published: Taylor Francis 2012
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1676/