Legal rights & mental health manual

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An essential resource for anyone concerned about legal rights and mental health, the Mind manual contains everything you need to know about the law as it applies to people with mental health problems. Written and updated to reflect recent changes in the law by members of Mind’s Legal Team, this comprehensive publication, contains briefings on mental health law and practice in England and Wales, and focuses on commonly encountered aspects of the law. An invaluable resource for anyone working in mental health, legal and advisory services.

Published in ring-binder format and written in accessible language, it is easy to use and to update. Contains a comprehensive overview of the following topics:

• Advocacy and legal advice
• Care in the community
• Complaints, redress and human rights
• Information rights
• Incapacity
• Discrimination
• Introduction to legal rights in hospital
• Admission for assessment and/or treatment and holding powers of doctors and nursing staff
• Police, courts and prisons
• Consent to treatment
• Discharge from hospital  

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• Author:

  Mind's Legal Unit

• Publisher:

  Mind

• Year:

  Last updated August 2011 (Update 37)

• Pages:

  310 (A4 ringbinder resource)

• ISBN:

  9781874690603