Recent publications

Australian Mental Health Tribunals : Space for Fairness, Freedom, Protection and Treatment?

By (author) Terry Carney , By (author) David Tait , By (author) Julia Perry , By (author) Alikki Vernon , By (author) Fleur Beaupert

This monograph provides a comprehensive examination of mental health tribunal hearings in Australia. It deals with a wide and far-reaching landscape of theories and concepts and their practical application to the day-to-day operations of the tribunals in New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory. The study is extensive and broad in its approach, going beyond a critical assessment of the individual tribunals to an examination of the supporting mental health services, and of the complex area of human rights as they relate to the care and treatment of people with a mental illness.