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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 £75 and is suitable for lawyers and non-lawyers). You can advertise your job vacancies and events here, or browse the bookshop. The main content of this website has been divided into Case law (2,487), Legislation (393) and Resources (1,140), together with separate Information pages (335) to link everything together.

Forum topics

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Contacts

The Magic Book is a database of contact details which currently contains 329 pages. Add or view contacts.

News and updates

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

18/07/25: Mental capacity law newsletter. 39 Essex Chambers, 'Mental Capacity Report' (issue 152, July 2025) — "Highlights this month include: (1) In the Health, Welfare and Deprivation of Liberty Report: what to do when an advance decision to refuse treatment may be in play, and the consequences of the gaps between services for those with disordered eating; (2) In the Property and Affairs Report: capacity in the rear view mirror: how does the presumption work?; (3) In the Practice and Procedure Report: disclosing position statements to observers; habitual residence, moving jurisdictions and ‘lawful authority;’ and the impact on P of being assessed; (4) In the Mental Health Matters Report: progress of the Mental Health Bill and the tort consequences of a finding of Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity; (5) In the Children’s Capacity Report: a depressing snapshot from the national DoL court, human rights of children in the social care system and capacity and gender-affirming treatment; (6) In the Wider Context Report: the Oliver McGowan statutory learning disability and autism training, and the pitfalls of facilitated communication (7) In the Scotland Report: joint attorneys in dispute: appropriate remedies and; “If at first you don’t succeed ...”: res judicata in tribunal proceedings."

Consultations

No open consultations.

To do

A glimpse into the to do list:

15/07/25: His Majesty's Senior Coroner for West Yorkshire (Western District), Re [2025] EWHC 1672 (Admin)^B (03 July 2025)†

Email updates

Choose occasional and/or monthly update emails. To sign up, please go to the email updates subscription page.

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 £75, you can obtain 12 CPD credits.

Jobs

Advertise your job vacancies here

Mental health panel member seeking agency work (listed until 5 September 2025)

Events

Advertise your events here

Books

Please support MHLO by clicking Amazon or Bookshop.org before you buy books (or, in Amazon's case, anything). View all books...

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 ==Mental Health Law Online==
-<section begin=about /><span class="plainlinks">The internet resource on mental health law, and mental capacity law, for England & Wales. You can sign up for free [http://www.mhlo.org.uk/lists/index.php?p=subscribe&id=1 email updates], the [https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/ online forum] and the [[CPD scheme]] (which provides 12 hours for £60 and is suitable for lawyers and non-lawyers).</span> The abbreviations are similar but MHLO, [[Mental Health Lawyers Association|MHLA]] and [[Mental Health Law Reports|MHLR]] are all different.
+{{Main Page introduction}}<!--Appears here and on About page-->
-The main content of this website has been divided into [[Special:Drilldown/Cases|Case law]] ({{Count pages in category|category=Transcript¦No transcript¦Cases}}), [[Special:Drilldown/Legislation|Legislation]] ({{Count pages in database table|Legislation}}) and [[Special:Drilldown/Resources|Resources]] ({{Count pages in database table|Resources}}), together with separate [[Information]] pages ({{count pages using template|template=Information-header}}) to link everything together.<section end=about />
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+<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #3AB54A"><i class="fa fa-comments" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Forum topics</h4>
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+<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #000000"><i class="fa fa-address-book" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Contacts</h4>
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+<p>The Magic Book is a database of contact details which currently contains '''{{#cargo_query:tables=Contact|fields=COUNT(*)|group by='()'}}''' pages. [[Contact:Magic Book#top|Add or view contacts]].</p>
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-<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #BF1E2E">News and updates</h4>
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-All the latest updates can be seen on on the <span class="plainlinks">[https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/c/mhlo-updates/10 MHLO updates]</span> forum category. Here are the most recent:
+All the latest updates to the website can be seen on on the <span class="plainlinks">[https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/c/mhlo-updates/10 MHLO updates]</span> forum category. The most recent appears here.
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+<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #F1592A"><i class="fa fa-question-circle" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Consultations</h4>
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-<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #E37151">Internet search</h4>
+<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #E37151"><i class="fa fa-list-ul" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;To do</h4>
-<div class="main-box-content">
+<div class="main-box-content" style="overflow-wrap: break-word">
-Search using the [https://duckduckgo.com/ DuckDuckGo] search engine:
+A glimpse into the [[Todo:{{CURRENTYEAR}}|to do list]]:
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+{{todo latest}}
-<p>Alternatively, you can use MHLO's own [[Special:Search|search page]].</p>
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-<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #9EB83B">Email updates</h4>
+<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #9EB83B"><i class="fa fa-envelope" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Email updates</h4>
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 Choose occasional and/or monthly update emails. To sign up, please go to the '''<span class="plainlinks">[http://www.mhlo.org.uk/lists/index.php?p=subscribe&id=1 email updates subscription page]</span>'''.
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+<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #ED207B"><i class="fa fa-graduation-cap" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;CPD</h4>
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-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.
+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 £75, you can obtain 12 CPD credits.
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+<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #A461EF"><i class="fa fa-briefcase" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Jobs</h4>
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+<h4 class="subheader main-subheader" style="background-color: #666666"><i class="fa fa-book" aria-hidden="true"></i>&nbsp;&nbsp;Books</h4>
-{{selected books}}
+<div class="main-box-content">
+Please support MHLO by clicking [https://www.amazon.co.uk/?tag=mentalhealthlaw-21 Amazon] or [https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/mentalhealthlaw Bookshop.org] before you buy books (or, in Amazon's case, anything). '''[[Books|View all books...]]'''
+</div>
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