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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 (2472), Legislation (391) and Resources (1,121), together with separate Information pages (334) to link everything together.

Forum topics

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Contacts

The Magic Book is a database of contact details which currently contains 315 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.

06/06/25: MHLA panel course now hybrid — The MHLA's mental health tribunal panel course on 24-25 June 2025 will now be a hybrid event (London and online) and the booking deadline has been moved to 19 June 2025. See MHLA: Panel course (London and online, 24-25 June 2025) for details.

Consultations

No open consultations.

To do

A glimpse into the to do list:

09/06/25: “Whether the Minister of Health has power to revise the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards Code of Practice issued under s.288 of the Mental Capacity Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 (‘the 2016 Act’) so as to provide that, in the context of the delivery of care and treatment, individuals aged 16 and over with impaired decision-making may be understood to be consenting to confinement through the expression of wishes and feelings, so that their circumstances do not fall within the scope of Article 5 of the European Convention on Human Rights (‘ECHR)’)”https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2025-0042

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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