Editorial: Introduction to special edition on law and rights, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
| dc.contributor.author | Bartlett, Peter | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-06T12:43:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-09-06T12:43:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bartlett, P. & Watchirs, H. (2005). Editorial: Introduction to special edition on law and rights, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 28 (2), pp.97-98. | |
| dc.identifier.other | 10.1016/j.ijlp.2005.03.007 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12904/5453 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This editorial presents an introduction to the special edition on law and rights. Much of the legal debate and development regarding mental health and rights in the last 15 years or so has sprung from international human rights instruments. Whether this involves instruments directed specifically at mental disorder, or the application of more general human rights instruments, national compliance with international obligations has acquired a central place in legal debates surrounding mental health law. It is a theme which permeates the papers in this volume. At its most theoretically simple level, discussions of this compliance must be based on some systematic assessment of whether the state in question is in compliance with its obligations: a rights audit is required. One of the papers in this volume provides a framework for such an audit, based on the obligations contained in the United Nations Principles. The majority of the papers note the increasing importance of capacity in modern understanding of mental health law, but there is no express reference to this concept in the key general international human rights documents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) | |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252705000154 | |
| dc.subject | Mental competency | |
| dc.subject | Legislation | |
| dc.title | Editorial: Introduction to special edition on law and rights, International Journal of Law and Psychiatry | |
| dc.type | Editorial | |
| html.description.abstract | This editorial presents an introduction to the special edition on law and rights. Much of the legal debate and development regarding mental health and rights in the last 15 years or so has sprung from international human rights instruments. Whether this involves instruments directed specifically at mental disorder, or the application of more general human rights instruments, national compliance with international obligations has acquired a central place in legal debates surrounding mental health law. It is a theme which permeates the papers in this volume. At its most theoretically simple level, discussions of this compliance must be based on some systematic assessment of whether the state in question is in compliance with its obligations: a rights audit is required. One of the papers in this volume provides a framework for such an audit, based on the obligations contained in the United Nations Principles. The majority of the papers note the increasing importance of capacity in modern understanding of mental health law, but there is no express reference to this concept in the key general international human rights documents. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) |