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We provide access to one of the largest dedicated mental health teams in the country. With a wide range of experience across all levels of mental health provision, from High Secure to Community, we can answer your questions quickly, accurately and with practical advice.

Key Services and Issues

• Applying mental health legislation
• Compulsory treatment Community Treatment Orders
• Hospital Managers power of discharge and hearings
• Mental Health Tribunals
• Section 117 aftercare and funding
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, including the Zone of Parental Control and safeguarding
• Policies and risk management
• Judicial Review Capacity and consent, including Advance Directives and Lasting Powers of Attorney
• Deprivation of liberty, use of the Safeguards and challenges to authorisations in the Court of Protection
• Interaction of the Mental Capacity Act and the Mental Health Act, for example, on consideration of a section or eligibility under the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
• SUI investigations
• Inquests
• Homicide and other inquiries
• Training

Our Work

• Successful challenge to a Mental Health Tribunal decision to order deferred discharge when a Community Treatment Order was clearly contemplated.
• Regular advice on issues for inquests, providing support for staff and representing trusts, up to and including Article 2 inquests with juries.
• Advice on the effects of doctors and social workers failing to maintain appropriate authorisations and the effect on actions subsequently taken under the Mental Health Act.