Mental health law
Subtitle: policy and practice
By: Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland.
Contributors: Sandland, Ralph.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 687
ISBN-13: 9780199278275
Subjects: Mental health laws -- Great Britain; Insanity -- Jurisprudence -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conceptualising mental health law; title: Problems of definition; title: An overview of the contemporary mental health system; title: Admission to hospital; title: The process of civil confinement; title: Mental disorder and criminal justice; title: Treatment in hospital; title: Leaving hospital; title: Control, care and community; title: Mental capacity: broad issues and basic concepts; title: The Mental Capacity Act 2005; title: Legal responses and advocacy for clients.