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Re-thinking Herczegfalvy: the ECHR and the control of psychiatric treatment (2012)
Book Chapter
Bartlett, P. (2012). Re-thinking Herczegfalvy: the ECHR and the control of psychiatric treatment. In E. Brems (Ed.), Diversity and human rights: rewriting judgments of the ECHR (352-381). Cambridge University Press

This chapter forms part of a E Brems (ed.), Diversity and Human Rights: Rewriting Judgments of the ECHR (Cambridge: CUP, forthcoming 2013), in which lawyers and academics re-write judgments of the ECHR in a number of human rights areas.

This cha... Read More about Re-thinking Herczegfalvy: the ECHR and the control of psychiatric treatment.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Law (2012)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (2012). The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Law. Modern Law Review, 75(5), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2012.00923.x

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (CRPD) took effect in 2008. This paper discusses a number of flashpoints where the CRPD will require real and significant reconsideration of English mental health and mental capa... Read More about The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Mental Health Law.

A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention (2012)
Journal Article
Bartlett, P. (2012). A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention. International Journal of Human Rights, 16(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2012.706008

It has long been the case in jurisprudence under the European Convention on Human Rights that mental disorder must be of a certain severity in order to justify detention,
but there has been little meaningful debate as to what that means. The questio... Read More about A mental disorder of a kind or degree warranting confinement: examining justifications for psychiatric detention.

‘Appropriate’ medical treatment: what’s in a word? (2012)
Journal Article
Phull, J., & Bartlett, P. (2012). ‘Appropriate’ medical treatment: what’s in a word?. Medicine, Science and the Law, https://doi.org/10.1258/msl.2011.011023

Following the amendments in the 2007 Act, there were several revisions made focusing largely on community treatment orders and deprivation of liberty of persons lacking capacity. One of the amendments included a requirement that ‘appropriate treatmen... Read More about ‘Appropriate’ medical treatment: what’s in a word?.