Wednesday, 6 July 2016

The meaning and implications of “legal custody” when applied to the Mental Health Act

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Recently, when I was on duty triaging the county’s requests for assessments under the Mental Health Act, one of my AMHP colleagues was re...
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Tuesday, 21 June 2016

Ask the AMHP: Getting discharged by a Tribunal; aftercare for a Sec.37/41 patient; and treatment, accommodation and mental capacity

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Ask The Masked AMHP for the answers to your thorny MHA related problems. He might know the answer. Or not. The Masked AMHP always tri...
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Friday, 10 June 2016

Section: Radio Drama about a Mental Health Tribunal

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This sounds really interesting: there's a radio play going out on BBC Radio 4 at 2.15 pm on 14th June 2016, which is about a patient ...
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Friday, 27 May 2016

Can Conditions Imposed Under Sec.37/41 Breach Article 8 Human Rights? Recent Case Law

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Conditions can be imposed on patients subject to conditional discharge under Sec.37/41 MHA, as well as those subject to Community Treatme...
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Friday, 20 May 2016

Death and Fire Bunnies: Another Story from an Out-of-hours Social Worker

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I’ve mentioned before on this blog that in addition to my day job, I did shifts in the local out-of-hours social work team for about 14 y...
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Friday, 15 April 2016

Anorexia: Persist with Treatment or Allow to Die? Recent Case Law

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(Post contains references to weight loss and BMI) In the last few years there have been a couple of judgments from the Court of Protect...
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Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Sinking into a Legal Quagmire

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I was on AMHP duty recently when I received a request for an urgent assessment under the Mental Health Act. It had come from the local cr...
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