Mental Health Tribunals

‘System founders on tip of the mental health iceberg’, The Age (Melbourne), 12 November 2007, 12; Wallace N. , ‘Don't let another die like this’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 15 October 2007, 5.

Andrews G Issakidis C Sanderson K , ‘Utilising Survey Data to Inform Public Policy: A Comparison of the Cost-effectiveness of Treatment of Ten Mental Disorders’ (2004) 184 British Journal of Psychiatry 526–533, 532.

Karras M McCarron A Gray A Ardasinski S , On the Edge of Justice: The Legal Needs of People with a Mental Illness in NSW (2006).

ACT MHA s 28.

Emphasis added.

Hunter Area Health Services v Presland (2005) 63 NSWLR 22, 120.

Sarkar S P Adshead G , ‘Black Robes and White Coats: Who Will Win the New Mental Health Tribunals?’ (2005) 186 British Journal of Psychiatry 96, 97. The United States Supreme Court has found that the Due Process clause of the US Constitution imposes a limited duty on the state to provide the ‘training’ necessary to protect the liberty interests of involuntarily hospitalised patients. Youngberg v Romeo 457 US 307 (1982)

Richardson G Machin D , ‘Doctors on Tribunals: A Confusion of Roles’ (2000) 176 British Journal of Psychiatry 110, 113.

NSW MHA s 53(6).

Australian Health Ministers, National Mental Health Plan 2003–2008 (2003) Canberra.

Swain P A , ‘Admitted and Detained — Community Members and Mental Health Review Boards’ (2000) 7(1) Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 79.

Winick B J , Civil Commitment: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Model (2005), 143; Perkins E , Decision-Making in Mental Health Review Tribunals (2003), 129; Peay J , Tribunals on Trial: A Study of Decision-Making under the Mental Health Act 1983 (1989), 209.

NSW MHA ss 37 and 53(6). For people who are involuntarily hospitalised, reviews must be conducted every 3 months in the first 12 months and subsequently every 6 months, but the Tribunal has a discretion to conduct annual reviews in ‘appropriate’ cases.

Grundell E , ‘Psychiatrists' Perceptions of Administrative Review: A Victorian Empirical Study’ (2005) 12(1) Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 68, 84.

Government of Western Australia, Department of Health, Review of Mental Health Act 1996 and Criminal Law (Mentally Impaired Defendants) Act 1996, Mental Health Review Board Working Party <http://www.health.wa.gov.au/mhareview/reports/working/MHRB%20FINAL%20%20-180303.pdf> at 10 June 2006, 1.

Eastman N , ‘Mental Health Law: Civil Liberties and the Principles of Reciprocity’ (1994) 308 British Medical Journal 43.

Carney T Tait D Beaupert F , ‘Pushing the Boundaries: Realising Rights through Mental Health Tribunal Processes?’ (Unpublished paper, 2007).

Brophy L , The Impact of the Mental Health Review Board on Psychiatric Service in Victoria (PhD Thesis, La Trobe University 1995) 91.

Herrman H Trauer T , J Warnock, J and Professional Liaison Committee (Australia) Project Team, ‘The Roles and Relationships of Psychiatrists and Other Service Providers in Mental Health Services’ (2002) 36(1) Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 75.

Victoria , Parliamentary Debates, Legislative Assembly, 18 September 2003, 578 (Ms Pike).

Greenland C , Mental Illness and Civil Liberty: A Study of Mental Health Review Tribunals in England and Wales (1970) 90.

J v V [1995] ACTSC 66 [115] ( Higgins J ).

Mental Health Review Board of Victoria, Annual Report 2005 (2005), 25.

Reichel W Utshcakowski J Hochschule B , A Comparison of the Legal Framework of Mental Health Care in England, Italy and Germany (2004) Weiterbildung Ambulante Psychiatrische PflachkrankenPflege) <http://www.wap-leonardo.de/eng/downloads/legalFrameworkUK.pdf> at 1 June 2007.

See Ayres I Braithwaite J , Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate (1992).

See, eg, Dawson J Szmukler G , ‘Fusion of Mental Health and Incapacity Legislation’ (2006) 188 British Journal of Psychiatry 504; Wand T Chiarella M , ‘A Conversation: Challenging the Relevance and Wisdom of Separate Mental Health Legislation’ (2006) 15(2) International Journal of Mental Health Nursing 119.