Mental disability has come of age as a subject of concern under the European Convention on Human Rights. It was only in 1979 that the first significant decision

The United Nations' Decade of Disabled Persons has served as a time for standard setting in the field of human rights and disability, and has created the need t

There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with D

This book explores the human rights consequences of recent and ongoing revisions of mental health legislation in England and Ireland. Presenting a critical disc

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