Saturday, 14 March 2015

CTO’s – Fit for Purpose?

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Community Treatment Orders were introduced by the 2007 changes to the Mental Health Act 1983, and came into force in 2008. The Ne...
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Friday, 6 March 2015

How do you define “a place to which the public have access” under Sec.136?

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The ambulance or the highway? There has recently been an interesting discussion on the Masked AMHP Facebook Mental Health Forum concerni...
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Thursday, 19 February 2015

CTO’s and a dreadful case of unlawful imprisonment

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Mistakes in law can come back to haunt you, even many years later. A recent Court of Appeal   judgment on 10 th February 2015 ([2015]...
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Sunday, 1 February 2015

Who Should Sign the Section Forms: the AMHP or the Nearest Relative?

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Yes, I know that in practice a patient’s nearest relative never makes an application for detention under Sec.2, Sec.3 or for guardianshi...
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Saturday, 17 January 2015

Ask the AMHP -- This Week: A Mixed Bag of Sec.117 After-care Issues

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Ask The Masked AMHP for the answers to your thorny MHA related problems. He might know the answer. Or not. I receive a lot of enquiries ...
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Thursday, 18 December 2014

Get The Masked AMHP™ Calendar for 2015 Now!

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The Masked AMHP -- Everyone's Pinup (cough) At last! The mental health related calendar you’ve been waiting for! January ...
Friday, 12 December 2014

Legal Black Holes: What Do You Do When There Isn’t a Bed?

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Is the Mental Health Act falling down a legal black hole? There are horrible yawning legal black holes in the Mental Health Act. U...
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