Mental Health Act Manual

by RichardJones (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $4.51

  This guide explains the impact of the Mental Health Act 2007 on the 1983 Act by detailing how each section of the Act has been affected. New provisions incorporated into the 1983 Act, such as community treatment orders, are fully covered.

• 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.