IS ANYONE SAFE? Civil Compulsion under the Draft Mental Health Bill
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https://doi.org/10.19164/ijmhcl.v0i8.341Abstract
The British Government published a draft Mental Health Bill for England and Wales on 26 June 2002. Its publication was preceded by a White Paper in December 2000, a Green Paper in November 1999, and a report prepared by a committee chaired by Professor Genevra Richardson.
The focus of the Bill is on risk management and compulsion in the community. It has been widely condemned by professional bodies, and by carers and patient groups. The nature of the criticism is that the proposals are unprincipled and impractical.
It is important to establish whether this is so. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the Government’s case for change and, having done that, to analyse the new civil powers of detention and compulsory treatment.
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