Laura Davidson

Marketing Manager, Greene & Greene

The relevance of purpose in deprivation of liberty cases

The addition of Ã¢â‚¬Ëœpurpose' by the English courts to the factors relevant 'in assessing whether there has been a deprivation of liberty can wrongly provide...

Close comfort

When it comes to deprivation of liberty, it should not matter if the judge's heart is in the right place, argues Laura Davidson

Minor threat

One simple amendment to recent mental health legislation could transform the quality of patients' lives, but we must club together if we are to persuade...

Finding fault

When does a tort of strict liability require fault? When you're a psychiatric patient, writes Laura Davidson

Order of the day

Community treatment orders are subject to strict criteria, but the rules concerning a patient's suitability for an order and when they might be recalled to...

Last resort

Sedation should only be used to transport an objecting incapacitated person elsewhere when it is the least restrictive way to protect them from foreseeable harm,...

Mental health and mental capacity: the new overlap

Patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 as well as their doctors should be able to rely on the new principles in the Mental...

Miracle cure?

The sleeping pill Zolpidem has recently been used with some success to revive patients in a permanent vegetative state. Laura Davidson asks where that leaves...

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