Irish Mental Health Lawyers Association Seminar

Date: Friday 9th October 2009 5.00pm

Venue: Distillery Building,145-151, Church St., Dublin 7.

Professor Anselm Eldergill

President U.K. Mental Health Lawyers Association,

President, Institute of Mental Health Act Practitioners,

Visiting Professor of Mental Health Law, Northumbria University,

Tribunal Judge, Legal Director of the African Regional Council on Mental Health

"Best Interests of the Person" - Mental Health Act 2001

also

Professor Darius Whelan

President Irish Mental Health Lawyers Association, Faculty of Law U.C.C.

"Involuntary to Voluntary Status and Back Again:

Recent Case-Law under the 2001 Act".

Refreshments will be provided.

Seminar Fee: Members — Free of Charge / Non-Members - €20.00

CPD points will be awarded for attendance at this Seminar


Mental health service directorate must be established as a priority

FOR YEARS now, health policymakers, service users, practitioners and society as a whole have been in favour of moving away from the practice of locking up people with mental illness in Victorian institutions, and developing better community-based services instead.

Yet we continue to accommodate many people with mental illnesses in those Victorian institutions we all want to see closed down. Why? Because wanting something to happen is not enough. We need to make it happen. We can have more reports calling for change, or we can have a dedicated team that delivers change.

Mental health services are important, different and badly-neglected. They need to be based in the community. Having them run from within the broad health services administrative structures means they do not get the focused attention needed for radical change to take place. Only a focused mental health service directorate can bring about the modernisation around which there is overwhelming consensus.

HSE seeks legal advice over report into death of woman (75)

THE HEALTH Service Executive (HSE) has sought legal advice on the publication of a report into the death of an elderly woman who choked after she got caught in a restraining belt on a chair in a geriatric psychiatric hospital.

A HSE South spokeswoman confirmed yesterday that it had received a report into the death of Hannah Comber (75), Ballyhea, Charleville, Co Cork, who died while a patient at Heatherside Hospital in north Cork in June 2006.


Difficulties for Legal Representatives in Article 40 challenges involving the Mental Health Act 2001.

Presentation by Michael Lynn BL

on

Difficulties for Legal Representatives in Article 40 challenges involving the Mental Health Act 2001.

Date:  Monday 20th July 2009

Venue: Distillery Building,145-151, Church St., Dublin 7. Time:  6.00pm

Refreshments will be provided.

Seminar Fee:    Members –  Free of Charge  /  Non-Members -  €75.00

CPD  points will be awarded for attendance at this Seminar