Mental health review tribunals and legal representation - equality of arms?

Legal Background of Mental Health Review Tribunals in the Uk

establishing a dialogue on the merits of the tribunals, and providing an impetus for procedural improvements for tribunal clients. In this study, a primary focus of interest is upon the impact of legal processes on the individuals who use them or who are subject to them. One possibility raised by this is that in some cases, legal procedures that are designed to safeguard an individual’s rights ...

Mental health review tribunals.

the theme of socio-therapy on an acute admission ward. In the current climate of extolling the virtues of community care and relegating in-patient care to institutionalism with its ills, to read about creatively organising the delivery of in-patient care is hearten ing. My basic training in psychiatry (early 1980s) involved working in a therapeutic community approach hospital run on similar lin...

Mental health review tribunals.

given a Grade D in the re-grading which compares unfavourably with their colleagues working on the in-patient unit. In common with many day hospitals, our nurses exhibit a high degree of clinical autonomy and are responsible for a substantial caseload of community based patients. They must liaise with families, community carers and the psychiatric firms to which the patients are attached. In ad...

Legal justice and mental health.

Mental Health and Legal Landscapes

When it was established early in the twentieth century, Tokanui became part of a network of mental hospitals that were responsible for the care and confinement of the insane and the mentally deficient. At the time of its construction Tokanui was the first new mental hospital commissioned in over 20 years and the first to be built in the central North Island. Of those mental hospitals operating ...