Mental health law and practice : civil and criminal aspects / Darius Whelan.
By: Whelan, Darius
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BookPublisher: Dublin : Round Hall/Thomson Reuters, 2009Description: lxi, 557 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1858005108 (cloth); 9781858005102 (cloth).Subject(s): Mental health laws -- Ireland | Mental health laws -- Ireland -- Cases | Insanity (Law) -- IrelandDDC classification: 344.170444 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Reference | MTU Bishopstown Library Reference | 344.170444 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Reference | 00170445 |
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This book is a comprehensive examination of civil and criminal aspects of mental health law. Both aspects have been the subject of major legal changes in recent years, with the coming into force of the Mental Health Act 2001 and the Criminal Law (Insanity) Act 2006. Emerging practices of the recently established Mental Health Tribunals and the Mental Health (Criminal Law) Review Board are reviewed. Contents: Constitutional and human rights in mental health law; Institutions of mental health law; Legal criteria for civil commitment; Procedure for civil commitment; Mental health tribunals; Wards of court; The insanity defence; Diminished responsibility; Mental health in sentencing; Fitness to plead; Patient transfers; Patients' rights; Confidentiality; Consent to treatment; Negligence actions. Dr Darius Whelan is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University College Cork
Includes index.
Principles of mental health law -- Remedies and institutions -- Legal criteria for involuntary civil admission -- Admission under the mental health act 2001 -- Voluntary patients -- Renewal orders -- Mental health tribunals -- Mental health tribunal hearings -- Scope of mental health tribunal reviews -- Treatment for a mental disorder -- Common law duties: negligence and confidentiality -- Requirements concerning institutional care -- Mental capacity -- Mental health and other aspects of civil law -- The insanity defence -- Diminished responsibility and infanticide -- Fitness for trial -- Reviews by the Mental Health (Criminal law) Review Board -- Mental health and other aspects of criminal law.