A matter of necessity? Enforced treatment under the Mental Health Act

Medical Law Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-98

  Bartlett, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

NEUROLEPTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AUSTRIA; EUROPE; EXPERT WITNESS; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; NOTE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT RIGHT; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; PSYCHOPATHY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENTS; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; AUSTRIA; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; EUROPE; EXPERT TESTIMONY; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT RIGHTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33847779371     PISSN: 09670742     EISSN: 14643790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwl027     Document Type: Note

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1. (1993) 15 E.H.R.R. 437.
2. [2005] U.K.H.L. 20.
3. [2003] E.W.C.A. Civ. 547.
4. MHA s.58(3)(b).
5. [2005] E.W.H.C. 921 Admin.
6. Ibid. at [26].
7. [2002] 1 W.L.R. 419.
8. Supra n.5, at [8].
9. Ibid. at [16].
10. Ibid. at [11].
11. At [33].
12. At [39].
13. At [42].
14. [2002] E.W.C.A. Civ. 1789 at [39].
15. [2003] E.W.H.C. 2335 (Admin) at [22-23].
16. [64].
17. Supra n.5, at [14].
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid. at [28].
20. Supra n.5, at [8] quoting para 16.21 of the Code of Practice
21. at [10], quoting Simon Brown L.J. in Wilkinson at [30].
22. Ibid. at [29].
23. Ibid. at [8].
24. Ibid. [8-11].
25. Ibid. at [16].
26. At [9].
27. At [34].
28. See, eg., Re MB (Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FLR 426
29. Re A (Male Sterilization) [2000] 1 FLR 549
30. Re S (Adult Patient: Sterilization) [2001] Fam 15.
31. E.g. at [34] and [63].
32. At [12].
33. (1993) 15 E.H.R.R. 437, at [82].
34. The case pre-dates the standards relating to psychiatric facilities of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, CPT/Inf/E (2002) 1, pp. 52-62, originally published as part of the Committee's 8th General Report, CPT/ Inf (98) 12.
35. See P. Bartlett, O. Lewis, O. Thorold, Mental Disability and the European Convention on Human Rights (Martinus Nijhoff 2006) ch. 3 and 4.
36. [2005] U.K.H.L. 20 at [31].
37. At [6].
38. Ibid.
39. At [33].
40. At [36].
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42. Ibid. p. 2.
43. Ibid. p. 1
44. see also p. 19.