PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1
1 Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws Bernadette McSherry and Penelope Weller 3
PART 2 HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS 11
2 Institutionalising the Community: The Codification of Clinical Authority and the Limits of Rights-Based Approaches&Philip Fennell 13
3 Lost in Translation: Human Rights and Mental Health Law&Penelope Weller 51
4 The Fusion Proposal: A Next Step?&Neil Rees 73
PART 3 THE INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FRAMEWORK AND THE UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES 95
5 The Expressive, Educational and Proactive Roles of Human Rights: An Analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities&Oliver Lewis 97
6 Involuntary Treatment Decisions: Using Negotiated Silence to Facilitate Change?&Annegret Kampf 129
7 Abolishing Mental Health Laws to Comply with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities&Tina Minkowitz 151
PART 4 GAPS BETWEEN LAW AND PRACTICE 179
8 Rights-Based Legalism: Some Thoughts from the Research&Genevra Richardson 181
9 Extra-Legislative Factors in Involuntary Status Decision-Making&Ian Freckelton 203
10 Civil Admission Following a Finding of Unfitness to Plead&Jill Peay 231
PART 5 REVIEW PROCESSES AND THE ROLE OF TRIBUNALS 255
11 Involuntary Mental Health Treatment Laws: The ‘Rights’ and the Wrongs of Competing Models?&Terry Carney 257
12 Reviews of Treatment Decisions: Legalism, Process and the Protection of Rights&Mary Donnelly 275
13 Mental Health Law and Its Discontents: A Reappraisal of the Canadian Experience&Joaquin Zuckerberg 299
14 Compulsory Outpatient Treatment and the Calculus of Human Rights&John Dawson 327
PART 6 ACCESS TO MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES 355
15 Rights-Based Legalism and the Limits of Mental Health Law: The United States of America’s Experience&John Petrila 357
16 The Right of Access to Mental Health Care: Voluntary Treatment and the Role of the Law&Bernadette McSherry 379
17 Thinking About the Rest of the World: Mental Health and Rights Outside the ‘First World’&Peter Bartlett 397
Index 419