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Mental Health Law Online
The internet resource on mental health law, and mental capacity law, for England & Wales. You can sign up for free email updates, the online forum and the CPD scheme (which provides 12 hours for £60 and is suitable for lawyers and non-lawyers). You can advertise your job vacancies and events here, or browse the bookshop. The main content of this website has been divided into Case law (2373), Legislation (378) and Resources (1,054), together with separate Information pages (328) to link everything together.
Forum topics
Contacts
The Magic Book is a database of contact details which currently contains 306 pages.
News and updates
All the latest updates to the website can be seen on on the MHLO updates forum category. The most recent appears here.
- 16/10/24: Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 144, October 2024) — "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: what to do where there is no reliable evidence of P’s wishes and feelings; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: gifts, attorneys and deputies; (3) In the Practice and Procedure Report: the perfect as the enemy of the good, and what to do when the situation changes; (4) In the Mental Health Matters Report: the human rights consequences of outsourcing in the mental health context; (5) In the Wider Context Report: the Law Commission consults on disabled children’s social care law and the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights balances Articles 2 and 8 in the medical treatment context; (6) In the Scotland Report: AWI legislative reform on the cards?"
Consultations
To do
A glimpse into the to do list:
- 16/10/24: Oxford Health NHS (23 008 538a) https://www.lgo.org.uk/decisions/health/mental-health-services/23-008-538a Statement Upheld Mental health services 02-Sep-2024 Summary: "Ms X complained about Oxfordshire County Council, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, and NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board. She complained about faults relating to aftercare under section 117 of the Mental Health Act 1983. We have upheld Ms X’s complaints about discharge, assessment, care planning and personal health budgets. We did not uphold the rest of Ms X’s complaints. The organisations have accepted our recommendations, so we have completed our investigation."
Email updates
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CPD
The CPD scheme is primarily aimed at mental health solicitors, and is an ideal way to evidence your continued competence, but is also suitable for barristers, psychiatrists, social workers and psychiatric nurses. For £60, you can obtain 12 CPD credits.
Jobs
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Events
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- PELT: Becoming a Mental Health Act Administrator - the Basics (online, 23/10/24)
- PELT: Introduction to the MHA, Code and Tribunals (online, 30/10/24)
- MHLA: Panel course (London, 4-5 November 2024)
- Browne Jacobson: Mental health and capacity forum - case law update (online, 5/11/24)
- PELT: Introduction to MCA and Deprivation of Liberty (online, 6/11/24)
- PELT: Introduction to COP, including s21A appeals (online, 13/11/24)
- Hill Dickinson: MCA and DOLS - the latest updates (online, 13/11/24)
- MHLA: 25th Annual Conference (Bristol, 15/11/24)
- PELT: Masterclass for MHA Administrators (online, 20/11/24)
- PELT: MHA Masterclass (online, 27/11/24)
- PELT: Court of Protection and MCA Masterclass (online, 3/12/24)
- PELT: Becoming a Mental Health Act Administrator - the Basics (online, 25/4/25)
Books
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