Background The UK Government has been pursuing a program to update the mental health law in England and Wales. The various proposals have met with sustained, widespread criticism. The intention now is to amend the statute in limited areas. This presentation will examine the clinical and legal context of a proposed change: introduction of supervised community treatment in the form of community t...

Julie Dockrell†, Geoff Lindsay‡, Sue Roulstone§ and James Law¶ †Psychology & Human Development, Institute of Education, London, UK ‡Centre for Educational Developement,Appraisal and Research (CEDAR), University of Warwick, Coventry, UK §Speech & Language Therapy Research Unit, University of the West of England, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, UK ¶School of Education, Communication and Language Scie...

Law 180 eliminated psychiatric hospitals for the care of people with chronic psychosis in Italy. After 30 years, we review the consequences for the practice of psychiatry in Italy and parallels for England and Wales. We argue that the substitution of legal/political direction for clinical leadership means psychiatrists may cease to merit the privileges and responsibilities of being doctors.

In many domains there are tensions between the rights and interests of children, parents state. medical law this has come under scrutiny in England Wales when considering how parenta...

Within the Minster of Beverley, at its liturgical center next to the high altar, sits a stone chair that once bore the inscription, "Haec sedes lapidea Freedstoll dicitur i.e. pacis cathedra, ad quam reus fugiendo perveniens omnimodam habet securitatem."1 On these words the sanctuary seeker relied as he made his desperate way to the refuge that would protect him from the penalties that the Comm...

state compensation to crime victims means paying money by the governmental institutions to victims or his/her families, when restitution by the offender and other financial sources is accessible. in the legal system of england, law of criminal damages includes all aspects of state compensation such as: conditions of eligibility related to victims, crimes, damages, perpetrators as well as proced...