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Mental Health Law Online

The internet resource on mental health law, and mental capacity law, for England & Wales. You can sign up for free email updates, the online forum and the CPD scheme (which provides 12 hours for £60 and is suitable for lawyers and non-lawyers). The abbreviations are similar but MHLO, MHLA and MHLR are all different.

The main content of this website has been divided into Case law (2364), Legislation (381) and Resources (1,050), together with separate Information pages (328) to link everything together.

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Contacts

The Magic Book is a database of contact details which currently contains 306 pages.


  News and updates

All the latest updates to the website can be seen on on the MHLO updates forum category. The five most recent appear here.

  • 09/10/24: Case (Extradition). Platt v High Court of the Republic of Ireland [2024] EWHC 1821 (Admin) — This appeal against an extradition order was founded on two factual propositions which, it was said, the District Judge failed or failed sufficiently to recognise: (1) detention of the appellant's partner under the MHA was a virtually certain consequence of the appellant's extradition; (2) There was a real risk that public mental health services would fail to ensure that the appellant's partner did not commit suicide or carry out acts of serious self-harm in the event of the appellant's extradition.
  • 08/10/24: Case (Anorexia nervosa). Re Patricia [2023] EWCOP 70 — The judge repeated the earlier declaration that it was not in the patient's best interests to be force fed, and further declared that it was in her best interests not to receive nasogastric tube feeding with restraint and not to receive any other medical treatment against her wishes.
  • 08/10/24: Case (Deathbed gifts). Rahman v Hassan [2024] EWHC 2038 (Ch) — The judge gave permission to appeal his earlier decision. (The first instance decision mentioned capacity but the appeal grounds do not.)


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  To do

Things that will end up with their own MHLO pages, when I have time...


  Email updates

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  CPD

The CPD scheme is primarily aimed at mental health solicitors, and is an ideal way to evidence your continued competence, but is also suitable for barristers, psychiatrists, social workers and psychiatric nurses. For £60, you can obtain 12 CPD credits.


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