Mental health law in the media
From Mental Health Law Online
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Other articles and programmes
Not everything will be listed below: more often news items are listed under 'External links' in the relevant pages. See also Settled cases and forthcoming judgments.
2011
- Various articles about first public Mental Health Tribunal hearing: see AH v West London MH NHS Trust (2011) UKUT 74 (AAC).
- Panorama, 'Undercover Care: The Abuse Exposed' (broadcast 31/5/11). Available to view online for 12 months from the date of broadcast
- Guardian, 'Smokers win right to challenge hospital ban' (6/5/11). Silber J gave permission to seek judicial review of Chadwick Lodge's policy of prohibiting smoking on hospital grounds (indoors or outdoors) or on escorted community leave. See Smoking.
- Julian Hendy, 'Scandal of mentally ill man who killed his father, was then released...and killed his mother' (Mail on Sunday, 10/4/11). This article is critical of mental health services, including mental health tribunals (for being in private), internal homicide inquiries (for being unreliable) and independent inquiries (for being repeatedly ignored).
- Mark Gould, 'Mental health patients complain of "zombification"' (Guardian, 15/3/11). This article discusses the increasing use of detention and CTOs.
- BBC, 'Care workers use glove puppet to bully elderly women', 6/1/11. This article involves a prosecution under MCA 2005 s44.
2010
- Private Eye, 'Mental Health: Catch 22' (Eye 1277, 10-23 December 2010). This article refers to the situation where Article 5 prevented patients from being discharged from hospital to conditions which amounted to a deprivation of liberty (which is no longer the case following SSJ v RB (2010) UKUT 454 (AAC)).
- Fiona Bawdon, 'Mental health patients face legal aid delay', Guardian 9/11/10 - This article is about the effect of the LSC's refusal to grant additional 'matter starts' to mental health law firms towards the end of the current contract period
- Channel 4 News: Family condemn 'barbaric' council over removal (text and video) - (video only) - 5/8/10 - This relates to G v E, Manchester City Council and F (2010) EWHC 2042 (Fam)
- BBC: Madness in the Fast Lane - 10/8/10 - Tabloid television about a mentally-ill lady's progress through the justice system
- BBC File on Four: 'Court of Protection cost me £50,000' - Broadcast on 27/7/10, repeated on 1/8/10 and available on BBC website
- BBC iPlayer: Mental: A History of the Madhouse - broadcast on 17/5/10 and 20/5/10 - Documentary about the closure of Britain's mental asylums
- Guardian: BBC4 to screen mental health documentary on sectioning - published 11/5/10 - The programme will be shown on 19/5/10 at 2100hrs.
- HundredFamilies.org: Practical information for families affected by mental health homicides in Britain - This detailed website was created alongside the BBC2 documentary "Why did you kill my dad?" which was shown on 1/3/10