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April 2010
- Benefits for prisoners transferred to mental hospitals
- An unequal relationship: the MHA/MCA interface following GJ
- Another way?
- Coroners and Justice Act - impact in inquests
- Mental Health case law update
- Nearest Relative
October 2009
- Assisted Dying - the new Guidance
- A National Care Service?
- Rule 43
- Court of Appeal Confirms Rampton Smoking Ban is Lawful
- "This is not the end of this by no manners mean" - the end of the mental health act commission
- Rabone - The latest case on Article 2: The Right to Life
May 2009
- Patients or Prisoners?
- Community Treatment Orders - Building on Firm Foundations
- Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) v Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA)
- Savage and Mitchell
- Rules For Disclosure at First Tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber)(Mental Health)
- Waiting for the SOAD for SCT patient?
July 2008
- Forthcoming Training Seminars & Conferences
- Opiate Dependent Prisoners Claims
- Will the patient confidentiality landscape be changed by Community Treatment Orders?
- ECT - A New Order
- The Incapacitated Patient and Representation
- DECISION TIME - The GMC’s New Guidance on Consent
Sept 2007
- And The Rest...
- New Professional Roles
- Treatment
- Children and the Mental Health Act
- The Nearest Relative
- Community Treatment Orders
May 2007
- Smokeless zones
- Case Summaries
- Inherently obvious?
- Shorts
- Nearest dearest
March 2007
- The Mental Health Bill - All Change?
- At last... the Mental Capacity Act
- Re-detention re-defined
- The Mental Health Bill: A rocky road ahead
- Deprivations of liberty
- Must the mail get through?
Jan 2007
- Treatment
- The Bournewood Framework
- Nearest Relative
- Round-up
- Supervised Community Treatment
- Picking up the bill
September 2006
- Disclosing Clinical records in clinical proceedings
- Which comes first?
- Case Summaries
- Shorts
- Fit for business? Mental health trusts and foundation status
April 2006
- Shorts
- Money's too tight to mention
- The AWOL "Scottish" patient
- Case Summaries
- New ways, but old problems
February 2006
- Suicide prevention conference
- Paying the costs of care - there is a limit to the NHS duty
- No smoke...
- Welfare advice - an important new decision on how it may be funded
- Case Summaries
- The quiet power of the hospital managers
November 2005
- Comment
- Shorts
- Lord Carlile QC welcomes Government concessions on mental health law, but says "could do better"
- Case Summaries
- MH - The House of Lords over-rules the Court of Appeal
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