This chapter considers the problem of treatment refusal amongst involuntarily hospitalised
psychiatric patients in the Canadian context. It describes mental health legislation in the …

Policies governing coercive psychiatric interventions must be scrutinized to ensure they are
not only beneficent but just. Within Canada, in seven of ten provinces, persons may be …

In this article, we examine one of the most contentious and divisive issues in mental health
law: the right of the involuntary patient to refuse treatment. The recognition of this right can …

Objective: In some Australian states clinicians and mental health tribunal members are
already required to assess a person's decision-making capacity before involuntary treatment …

Patients must consent to the psychiatric care they receive, as with other medical treatments;
however, there are specific circumstances in which treatments are compulsory and …

Historically, individuals with mental illness have had more limited rights to refuse treatment
than those without mental illness. is was primarily the case for patients committed to …

This chapter examines the possible justifications for the existence of wide compulsory
powers and considers the principles which might be used to inform and underpin modern …

Objectives: Mental health laws set criteria that limit the use of involuntary admission to
specific circumstances, and clinicians are expected to justify the lawfulness of such …

While the ethics of involuntary admission for psychiatric inpatient care is widely contested,
the practice is legally permissible across most jurisdictions. In many countries, laws …

Abstract Since the Cheshire West judgement, yearly applications for the Mental Health Act
(MHA) and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) have increased, though many patients …