Leagan Gaeilge   Text Version   Display: Zoom (-) (+)   View ( Normal High contrast ) Printer Friendly  A to Z  Sitemap

23rd june 2012 - mental health law reform: new perspectives and challenges

The Centre for Disability Law and Policy, in association with the School of Law, NUI Galway and Amnesty International Ireland hosted a conference on the 23rd of June in Aras Moyola, NUI Galway on the topic of "Mental Health Law Reform: New Perspectives and Challenges".

The conference was aimed at service users, legal practitioners, mental health professionals, advocates, academics, policy makers, politicians, NGOs and any person or organization interested in mental health law and policy.

The Department of Health is currently undertaking a review of the Mental Health Act 2001. This conference examined issues relevant to this review, including Ireland’s obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as it moves towards ratification. The conference heard from leading national and international experts on mental health law and policy. The conference also heard from an expert panel on mental health in Ireland, which will be composed of a service user, psychiatrist, family member and legal practitioner. A member of the Steering Group on the Review of the Mental Health Act 2001 also was in attendance and spoke about the in Interim Report released just days before the Conference.

The panel of speakers included:

• Professor Bernadette McSherry, Director, Centre for the Advancement of Law and Mental Health, Monash University, Australia

• Professor Phil Fennel, Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, Wales

• Professor Amita Dhanda, Nalsar University of Law, Hyderabad, India

• Dr. Mary Donnelly, Senior Lecturer in Law, University College Cork, Ireland

• Ms. Roisin Webb BL, Children and Youth Policy Officer, Mental Health, Amnesty International Ireland

• Expert Panel on Mental Health - This will include: Eddie Molloy, Aine Hynes, Dr. Brendan Kelly, Fionn Fitzpatrick and Dr. Gavin Davidson, Jutta Kirrkamm and Luke Mulligan
  

Please see below for papers and videos.

Presentations

• Prof. Bernadette McSherry - "Recent trends in mental health laws: supported decisions-making, access to service and the inclusion of families and carers"
  

• Prof. Phil Fennell - "The Deprivation of Liberty safeguards in England: The case for Abolition"

• Prof. Amita Dhanda -  "Mental Health Law reform in the new and old paradigm of legal capacity"

• Dr. Mary Donnelly - "Falling between the gaps: formulating reform in a dual-model system

• Dr. Brendan Kelly, Psychiatrist perspective on the Expert Panel 

Videos

 

• Disclaimer
• Privacy
• Copyright
• Accessibility