Journal of Mental Health Law: November 2005
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- Legislation to Law: Rubicon or Styx?
- Offenders, Deviants or Patients? by Herschel Prins (3rd edition)
- The Balancing Act
- The House of Lords and the Unimportance of Classification: A Retrograde Step
- “Hospital” Treatment Further Refined
- An Inconvenient Mirror. Do we already have the next Mental Health Act?
- Reflections from Scotland: Difficult Decisions Ahead
- Mental Capacity Act 2005: The Statutory Principles and Best Interests Test
- The Mental Capacity Act 2005, the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Common Law
- Protection! Protection! Protection! Déjà vu all over again.
- Death of the Nearest Relative?



