International journal of law and psychiatry
Lack of challenge to substantive criteria at mental health tribunals: Amplifying the medical perspective?
Sam Boyle, Fiona Jager, Jean-Laurent Domingue, Amélie Perron
Published: 202510.1016/j.ijlp.2025.102166
Abstract
Mental health tribunals provide legal safeguards for compulsory treatment for mental illness. Despite one of these tribunals' purposes being to give people subject to compulsory treatment a "day in court", research has shown that individuals' experie…
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