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The Trials Of Mental Health Law: Recent Trends And Developments In Canadian Mental Health Jurisprudence, Robert M. Gordon, Simon N. Verdun-Jones
The Trials Of Mental Health Law: Recent Trends And Developments In Canadian Mental Health Jurisprudence, Robert M. Gordon, Simon N. Verdun-Jones
Dalhousie Law Journal
Mental health law in Canada has traditionally shared many common themes with the mental health law of such other Commonwealth countries as Britain, Australia and New Zealand but is only a distant cousin of the system of mental health law that has emerged in the United States. The existence of an entrenched Bill of Rights in the United States has fashioned a situation in which many major issues relating to the rights of mental health patients have been dealt with as constitutional matters of great import. Consequently, the 1960s and 1970s witnessed a burgeoning of an exciting body of case …
Involuntary Psychiatry In Nova Scotia: The Review Board Reports (1979-1983) And Recent Proposals For Legislative Change, H Archibald Kaiser
Involuntary Psychiatry In Nova Scotia: The Review Board Reports (1979-1983) And Recent Proposals For Legislative Change, H Archibald Kaiser
Dalhousie Law Journal
The Nova Scotia Psychiatric Facilities Review Board, appointed under s. 53 of the Hospitals Act1, fulfils many vital functions affecting the treatment and liberty of the patient involuntarily confined in the psychiatric hospitals of the Province.2 Although its proceedings are held in camera,3 the Board fortunately publishes an Annual Report which is tabled in the House of Assembly.4 Neither lay persons aor lawyers are likely to scrutinize these documents and this Comment is intended in part to redress this regrettable disregard as well as to offer some critical remarks. They contain material which will both hearten and disturb the reader, …