https://northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijmhcl <p>The International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law is an international peer reviewed open access journal devoted to the intersection between law, mental health and mental capacity.</p> <p>ISSN: 2056-3922</p> Northumbria University Library en-US International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law 2056-3922 <p><span>Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:</span></p><p>a. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" target="_new">Creative Commons Attribution License</a> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.</p><p>b. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.</p><p>c. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work</p><p> </p> https://northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijmhcl/article/view/1357 Kris Gledhill Copyright (c) 2023 Kris Gledhill http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2023-06-19 2023-06-19 29 52 52 10.19164/ijmhcl.29.1357 https://northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijmhcl/article/view/1360 Alex Ruck Keene Copyright (c) 2023 Alex Ruck Keene http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2023-06-19 2023-06-19 29 80 82 10.19164/ijmhcl.29.1360 https://northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijmhcl/article/view/1361 Alex Ruck Keene Copyright (c) 2023 Alex Ruck Keene http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2023-06-19 2023-06-19 29 83 87 10.19164/ijmhcl.29.1361 https://northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijmhcl/article/view/1358 <p>In 2018, following a significant increase in violence against NHS staff and others serving the public, the UK Parliament passed a piece of legislation which included the creation of a new offence category, ‘Assault against an Emergency Worker’. The intention was to codify the aggravating nature of assaults against emergency workers as a reflection of the moral outrage such behaviour should attract. However, the actual implementation of this law has been criticised as adding very little to the lofty promises of promoting a “zero tolerance” culture. In this paper we review the new legal framework and attempt to highlight potential effects arising from its implementation.</p> Catherine Weeks Trevor Broughton Copyright (c) 2023 Catherine Weeks, Trevor Broughton http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2023-06-19 2023-06-19 29 53 62 10.19164/ijmhcl.29.1358 https://northumbriajournals.co.uk/index.php/ijmhcl/article/view/1359 <p>On 27 April 2022, Singapore executed Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, a 33-year-old Malaysian who was convicted of trafficking 42.72 grams of heroin. His execution was carried out despite calls from United Nations (UN) human rights experts, including the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, for the government to commute his death sentence inter alia on the basis that Nagaenthran did not have access to procedural accommodations for his disability during his interrogation and death sentences should not be carried out on persons with serious psychosocial and intellectual disabilities. Nagaenthran’s execution has put Singapore’s criminal legal system, particularly in respect of its treatment of offenders with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities, under international scrutiny.</p> Daryl WJ Yang Copyright (c) 2023 Daryl WJ Yang http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 2023-06-19 2023-06-19 29 63 79 10.19164/ijmhcl.29.1359