Taking Stock :The Mental Health & Mental Capacity reforms

P R O G R A M M E

09:30 Registration09:50 Angela Downing Welcome10.00 Key Note Speaker Lord Justice (Sir James) Munby10:30 Professor Phil Fennell Treatment without Consent and the Nature of Legal Safeguards11:10 Questions11:20 Coffee11:40 John Horne Is the Tribunal really a Safeguard?12:15 Professor Richard Jones Reflections on DoLS12:45 Questions and discussion

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Neil Allen Allen’s ten key DoLS cases14:25 David Hewitt Community Treatment Orders and their conditions14:50 Professor Nav Kapur Advance Directives and suicide15:20 Panel discussion and questions chaired by Professor Luke Clements.

16:00 Close

Royal Northern College of Music

Manchester 15th October 2010

TAKING STOCK: The MHA 1983 and MCA 2005 reforms

A National Conference jointly sponsored by the Approved Mental Health Professionals Association (North West and North Wales) and Cardiff Law School with sponsorship from Weightmans LLP Solicitors and support from Manchester University.

The Conference will review the leading judgments and policy initiatives that have emerged since the historic reform by the Mental Health Act 2007 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and the Mental Health Act 1983.

The Conference will open with a Key Note Address by Lord Justice Munby, Chairman of the Law Commission.

Leading commentators on the reformed legislation will provide their analyses of what the judgments and policy developments mean and what the future holds for this most contested area of law and practice.

The Conference provides an opportunity for discussion, questions and debate and will be of especial relevance to those who are affected by the legislation, be they service users, advocates, health and social care practitioners, lawyers, researchers, independent sector service providers and policy activists.

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Taking Stock : The Mental Health & Mental Capacity reformsS P E A K E R S

The Right Honourable Lord Justice (Sir James) MunbySir James is Chairman of the Law Commission and was appointed a Judge of the High Court (Family Division) in 2000, a Special Immigration Appeals Commissioner in 2002 and was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2009.

Neil Allen is a Barrister at Young Street Chambers and a Clinical Teaching Fellow of Manchester University. In addition to lecturing in mental health and incapacity law, he runs s12 / approved clinician courses for the North West and regularly publishes in legal books and journals.

Angela Downing, is the Programme Director for the University of Manchester’s MSc in Applied Mental Health (including AMHP and BIA training). Angela trained as a psychiatric social worker at the University, qualifying in 1978, and then worked for Manchester Social Services until 2007 when she returned to the University in her academic role.

Phil Fennell is a Professor of Law in Cardiff University Law School. He was the specialist legal adviser to the Joint-Parliamentary Scrutiny Committee on the Draft Mental Health Bill 2004, and to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights for the Committee’s scrutiny of the 2006 Bill. He has written widely including Treatment without Consent (Routledge) Mental Health: the New Law (Jordans) and co-editor and author of Principles of Mental Health Law (Oxford University Press – 2010).

David Hewitt is a partner in Weightmans LLP and a Visiting Fellow of both Northumbria University and Lincoln University. He is also a Tribunal Judge and vice-president of the Institute of Mental Health Act Practitioners. David is the author of a number of books, including The Nearest Relative Handbook (Jessica Kingsley Publishers).

John Horne is a Teaching Fellow in the Law School at Northumbria University, where he teaches on the LLM/diploma courses in mental health law. He is Director of the School’s Centre for Mental Health Law, Editor of the Journal of Mental Health Law, a part-time Tribunal Judge, & former Mental Health Act Commissioner.

Richard Jones is an Honorary Professor of Law at Cardiff University Law School. He is the author of the Mental Health Act Manual and the Mental Capacity Act Manual (Sweet and Maxwell). He works as a consultant for Morgan Cole Solicitors.

Nav Kapur is a Professor and Head of the Research at the Centre for Suicide Prevention at the University of Manchester. He is the Assistant Director of the National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Homicide by People with Mental Illness and chair of the School of Community Based Medicine Board.

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