The Human Rights Act and mental health legislation
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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...
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عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0007-1250
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.182.2.91