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This monograph provides a comprehensive examination of mental health tribunal hearings in Australia. It deals with a wide and far-reaching landscape of theories and concepts and their practical application to the day-to-day operations of the tribunals in the states and territories of New South...
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During the recent boom in the world economy, many western developed countries, of varying political complexion, adopted neoliberal welfare policies and deregulated labour markets. For the unemployed these reforms were characterised by contracting-out of labour exchange functions (public...
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This paper reviews the unmet need for legal services for people acting as carers of people with impaired mental capacity, including the legal needs of older carers. It examines private and public planning options, such as wills and estate planning, powers of attorney, trusts and adult...
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Major transformations in forms of governance of the liberal state have been wrought over the course of the last century, including the rise of neoliberalism and 'new public management'. Mental health too has witnessed change, with pharmacological treatment displacing residential care, a shift to...
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This paper explores social equity, health planning, regulatory and ethical dilemmas in responding to a pandemic influenza (H5N1) outbreak, and the adequacy of protocols and standards such as the International Health Regulations (2005). The paper analyses the role of legal and ethical...
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This article draws on fieldwork data from a study of Australian mental health tribunals to critically assess property management legislation for people with mental illness in the Australian State of New South Wales ('NSW'). It is argued that the NSW law is anomalous in requiring that...
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Anorexia nervosa is often chronic, with one of the highest death rates for psychological conditions. Law can compel treatment, but is rarely invoked, at least formally (though the strategic possibilities of orders confers internal authority within the clinical setting). Instead, 'control' (or...
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Mental health jurisprudence traditionally was more concerned to protect negative or 'liberty' rights than to advance positive rights of access to needed mental health care and treatment. North American test case litigation contributed to advances in the quality of mental health and other...
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OBJECTIVE: This paper addresses the question of the circumstances which lead clinicians to use legal coercion in the management of patients with severe anorexia nervosa, and explores similarities and differences between such formal coercion and other forms of 'strong persuasion' in patient...
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