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This section contains general articles to explain the concepts and terminology used in the caselaw and legislation sections, and practical guidance for lawyers (especially trainees). Please amend and add content where necessary. Feel free simply to add a page title, or the briefest of details, for someone else to expand upon. Articles with bold links have more detail than the others.

Practical guidance for lawyers

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Legal Aid

Legal Aid‎ (3 categories, 13 pages)

Legal Aid archive‎ (5 pages)

Legal Aid eligibility‎ (2 pages)

Main types of funding‎ (2 pages)

Disbursements, including independent experts

Escape fee cases

Hourly rates and fixed fees

Legal Aid Agency Liverpool Office

Legal Aid for appeals

Legal Aid forms

Legal Aid guidance documents

Legal Aid in the Court of Protection

Peer review

Standard Civil Contract 2018

Standard Civil Contract 2024

The mental health fee scheme

Transaction criteria

Types of detention

Types of detention including the following:

• Admission for assessment (s2)

• Admission for treatment (s3)

• Hospital order (s37)

• Restriction order (s37/41)

• s37/41

• Interim hospital order (s38)

• Transfer direction (s47)

• Restriction direction (s49)

• s47/49

• Notional s37

• Hospital direction (s45A)

• Limitation direction (s45A)

Recall

Time-limited restriction orders

Types of patient

Unrestricted patient

Restricted patient

Technical lifer

Discharge

Discharge including the following:

Routes to discharge:

• Mental Health Review Tribunal (See Eligibility periods and Automatic references)

• Hospital Managers' Hearing

• Responsible Medical Officer

• Nearest Relative (See Barring order and Dangerousness criterion)

• Ministry of Justice

Types of discharge:

• Supervised discharge

• Conditional discharge

• Deferred conditional discharge

• Absolute discharge

• Deferred discharge (in unrestricted cases)

• Discharge of transferred prisoners

Other

Please add any pages here which do not fit into the categories listed above.

Repatriation

Transfer (between hospitals)

Leave of absence

Care Programme Approach

Psychiatric medication

Overview of the Mental Health Act 1983

NHS complaints procedure

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974

High secure hospital

Mental disorder

Victims' rights to make representations and receive information

MHRT Victims Policy

Power to specify hospital units

Second Opinion Appointed Doctor

Insight

Application of MHA 1983 to Armed Forces

Dual diagnosis