Proceeding contribution from Baroness Browning (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Monday, 16 April 2007. It occurred during Debate on bill on Mental Health Bill [HL].
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
The difference between the right hon. Lady’s proposals and the Mental Health Act 1983 is not just to do with the compulsion elements, which I agree were already in place; the difference is that the Bill couples them with a redefinition of mental disorder. Broadening the definition from a clinical to a behavioural judgment and combining it with the Bill’s powers is what makes the measure so dangerous.
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- 2006-07
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- Children Admissions Appeals Consent to medical treatment Crimes of violence Community care Autism Compulsorily detained psychiatric patients Advocacy Women Human rights Homicide Discrimination Ethnic groups Mental illness NHS Medical treatments Nurses Patients' rights Psychiatric patients Mental health services Mental health Mental Health Review Tribunal Scotland Young people Wales Research Suicide Community treatment orders
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- Mental Health Bill (HL) 2006-07
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