Mental Health and Mental Capacity
The past year has been a lively one for those interested in mental health and mental capacity law. The Mental Health Act 2007 was finally passed in England and Wales, and the Bamford Review of mental health and learning disability published its proposals in Northern Ireland. We are also starting to see the first results of how the new Scots legislation is working in practice. At the international level, the new UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was opened for signature in the spring, and by October 2007, 118 countries had signed.
While these legal developments provide a particularly apt occasion for the stream, papers from all areas of the law relating to mental health and mental disability are welcome, including
- Civil, criminal or informal mechanisms of control
- International law relating to people with mental disabilities
- The role of administration or care-givers in the provision of services
- The role or experience of service users in mental health care.
We impose no restriction on methodology: papers may be empirical, policy-centred, historical, analytic, traditional legal, or theoretical, in approach.
Peter Bartlett
School of Law
University of Nottingham
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
Tel: +44 (0)115 951-5709
E-mail: Peter.Bartlett@nottingham.ac.uk