The Human Rights Act and Mental Health: By W. Armstrong, J. Cummings, K. Gledhill and P. Edwards

Human Rights Act 1998 and mental health legislation: implications for the management of mentally ill patients.

In the management of mentally ill patients, there is a tension between protecting the rights of individual patients and safeguarding public safety. The Human Rights Act 1998 emphasises on the former while two recent white papers focus on the latter. This article first examines the extent to which the Mental Health Act 1983 is consistent with the Human Rights Act. It argues that while the recent...

Migration, mental health, and human rights.

The three themes of this special issue of the International Journal of Law and Psychiatry—migration, mental health, and human rights—draw together matters that are intuitively linked. The capacity to migrate and experiences of migration are powerfully affected by the economic, social, and political circumstances of the migrant, specifically, by the extent to which the migrant’s human rights are...

Mental health disabilities and human rights protections

BACKGROUND Around the world, reports regularly expose persistent and systemic human rights violations of patients in mental health services and facilities, and of those who are unable to access needed supports. A number of factors contribute - political will; the range and quality of services available; public and professional attitudes to mental health; stigma; health professionals' training a...

Mental handicap and the mental health act.

Religious circumcision and the Human Rights Act.