Mental Health Act Manual

by RichardM.Jones (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $4.24

  The Mental Health Act Manual is widely accepted as the 'bible' of the Mental Health Act. It is the essential guide for anyone implementing or advising on this complex area of law. This popular and practical work brings together the Act, the Code of Practice and related subordinate legislation. It also includes relevant extracts from the Human Rights Act, enabling practitioners to familiarise themselves quickly and fully with this important area of law. The manual also outlines the responsibilities and obligation of the parties involved, ensuring that the Act is implemented correctly. The new edition has been revised and updated taking into account recent new legislation and case law. * Provides for the Act in its amended form * Advises on the implications of the amendments * Sets out common rules relating to consent to treatment and to the restraint and detention of patients * Describes the consequences of the implementation of the Human Rights Act

• 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.