The Irish Mental Health Lawyers Association held a seminar in Dublin in October 2013. Two of the papers are attached below.

Niall Nolan, ‘Mental Health Law in Ireland: Where we have come from and may be heading to’
Keith Walsh, ‘One flew over the Judges’ nest: signs of a less paternalistic attitude to mental health law in the Superior Courts? An examination of recent successful and unsuccessful superior court applications in the mental health law area, including the decisions in S.O. and X.Y.’