Mental Health Act Manual

by RichardJones (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2010

  $4.36

  The Mental Health Act Manual provides an essential guide to the Mental Health Act for mental health and legal professionals, providing clear instructions on the Act and how it governs their working practises. This invaluable guide covers the advances in this rapidly changing area of law due to the number of judicial reviews, amount of case law and developments concerning the European Convention on Human Rights.

• Used

  Paperback
  1999

  $3.25

  This highly successful volume of mental health legislation and case law, regarded as the approved social workers' 'bible' and quoted by Lord Woolf, is now in its 6th edition. Providing full coverage of the new code of practice issued late in 1998, this book acts as a guidance document which will impact upon all mental health practitioners. It discusses the Bourne Wood case, allegedly the most important case in the history of mental health law, and provides a wealth of other new and updated case law. Compact guide to a complex area. Includes the new government code of practice. Written by a former Mental Health Act Commissioner. Annotations provide guidance throughout.