The addition of ‘purpose' by the English courts to the factors relevant 'in assessing whether there has been a deprivation of liberty can wrongly provide...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
