Books
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You can also support MHLO by purchasing the Law Society's MHT book (2013) and the Annual Review 2020.
Some books can be read for free on this website: Anselm Endergill's MHRT book (1997), Larry Gostin's Mental Health Services looseleaf book (2000), and older editions of the MHLO Annual Review.
Most of the books in the resources database are set out below (newest first) but you can also browse the database (e.g. find all books by a particular author or from a particular publisher).
Jonathan Wilson, Mental Health Law Online: Annual Review 2020 (published 2021) — This booklet contains all news items, arranged thematically, which were added to the website during 2020, plus an update article from Legal Action magazine. Price: paperback £5.99, Kindle £2.99. — Purchase on Amazon
British National Formulary (Pharmaceutical Press, 81st edn 2021) — The BNF is published biannually and includes key information on the selection, prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines. — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Richard Jones, Mental Health Act Manual (23rd edn, Sweet and Maxwell 2020) — As well as from Amazon, this book can be purchased directly from the publishers (paperback, eBook or both). This is the book everybody needs to have. — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Ben Troke, A Practical Guide to the Law of Medical Treatment Decisions (Law Brief Publishing, 2020) — This book is aimed not only at lawyers, but also clinicians and anyone with an interest in how medical treatment decisions are made. — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Steven Richards and Aasya Mughal, Working with the Mental Health Act (4th edition, Matrix Training 2020) — MHA book — Purchase on Amazon
Camilla Parker, Adolescent Mental Health Care and the Law (LAG 2020) — This book focuses on the law relating to children and young people aged under 18 who require a period of inpatient psychiatric care. — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Alex Ruck Keene et al, Court of Protection Handbook: A User's Guide (3rd edn, LAG 2019) — Quarterly updates are available online: see Alex Ruck Keene et al, 'Court of Protection Handbook: Handbook updates' (updated 1/2/21). — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Robert Brown, The Approved Mental Health Professional's Guide to Mental Health Law (5th edn, Sage 2019) — Book for AMHPs. — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
George Szmukler, Men in White Coats: Treatment Under Coercion (OUP 2018) — This book proposes mental health law reform so is topical in light of the Wessely review of the Mental Health Act. — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Steven Richards and Aasya Mughal, Working with the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (3rd edition, Matrix Training 2018) — Updated for 2018 (the introduction is dated April 2018). — Purchase on Amazon
Richard Jones and Eve Piffaretti, Mental Capacity Act Manual (8th edn, Sweet and Maxwell 2018) — Purchase on Amazon
Brenda Hale, Mental Health Law (6th edn, Sweet and Maxwell 2017) — Covers mental health law and associated mental capacity law topics. See book review by Alex Ruck Keene, 1/5/17. — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Christine Hutchinson and Neil Hickman, Focus on Social Work Law: Mental Health (Palgrave 2016) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Tony Zigmond and Nick Brindle, A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Mental Health Act (4th edn, RCPsych Publications 2016) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Claire Barcham, The Pocketbook Guide to Mental Health Act Assessments (2nd edn, OUP 2016) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Claire Wills-Goldingham et al, Court of Protection Made Clear (Bath 2016) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Sarah Johnston, Sophy Miles and Claire Royston, Mental Health Tribunal Handbook (LAG 2015) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Steven Richards and Aasya Mughal, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) Handbook (Books Wise Publications 2015) — Purchase on Amazon
Alex Ruck Keene (ed), Assessment of Mental Capacity (4th edn, Law Society 2015) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Nick Brindle et al, A Clinician's Brief Guide to the Mental Capacity Act (2nd edn, RCPsych Publications 2015) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Matthew Graham and Jakki Cowley, A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (JKP 2015) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Daniel Moseley and Gary Gala (eds), Philosophy and Psychiatry: Problems, Intersections and New Perspectives (Routledge 2015) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Department of Health, Code of Practice: Mental Health Act 1983 (2015) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland, Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice (4th edn, OUP 2013) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Michael Butler, A Practitioner's Guide to Mental Health Law (Wildy, Simmonds and Hill 2014) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Richard Harper, Medical Treatment and the Law: Issues of Consent (2nd edn, Jordans 2014) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Nazreen Pearce and Sue Jackson, Urgent Applications in the Court of Protection (2nd edn, Jordans 2014) — Purchase on Amazon
Tony Harrop-Griffiths et al, Dementia and the Law (Jordans 2014) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Gordon Ashton and Caroline Bielanska, Elderly People and the Law (Jordans 2014) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Hamish Arnott and Simon Creighton, Parole Board Hearings: Law and Practice (3rd edn, LAG 2014) — Published in January 2014 but still (in 2017) the best book on the subject. — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Phil Fennell, Penny Letts and Jonathan Wilson, Mental Health Tribunals: Law, Policy and Practice (Law Society, 2013) — See the foreword from the book, and a review from the Law Society Gazette. — Purchase from MHLO
Jonathan Butler, Mental Health Tribunals: Law, Practice and Procedure (2nd edn, Jordans 2013) — Purchase on Amazon
Bernadette McSherry and Ian Freckelton (eds), Coercive Care: Rights, Law and Policy (Routledge 2013) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Richard Murphy and Philip Wales, Mental Health Law in Nursing (Learning Matters, 2013) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Kris Gledhill, Defending Mentally Disordered Persons (LAG 2012) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Mark Neary, Get Steven Home (Lulu 2011) — The story behind Re Steven Neary; LB Hillingdon v Steven Neary [2011] EWHC 1377 (COP). Purchase from Lulu.
Tony Maden and Tim Spencer-Lane, Essential Mental Health Law: A Guide to the New Mental Health Act (Hammersmith Press, 2010) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Larry Gostin et al (eds), Principles of Mental Health Law and Policy (Oxford 2010) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
David Hewitt, The Nearest Relative Handbook (2nd edn, Jessica Kingsley 2009) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Peter Bartlett, Blackstone's Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (2nd edn, Oxford 2008) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Ministry of Justice, Mental Capacity Act 2005: Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice (2008) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Paul Bowen, Blackstone's Guide to the Mental Health Act 2007 (OUP 2007) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Department for Constitutional Affairs, Mental Capacity Act 2005: Code of Practice (2007) — Purchase on Amazon — Purchase on Bookshop.org
Larry Gostin, Mental Health Services: Law and Practice (Shaw & Sons, supplement issue no 18, June 2000) — The full text of this book is available on Mental Health Law Online.
Anselm Eldergill, Mental Health Review Tribunals: Law and Procedure (Sweet and Maxwell, London 1997) — The full text of this book is available on Mental Health Law Online: Eldergill. — Purchase on Amazon
