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Prof Jill Stavert's Outputs (6)

Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation (2024)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2024). Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation. In N. Gill, & N. Sartorius (Eds.), Mental Health and Human Rights: The Challenges of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Mental Health Care (153-165). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52179-9_11

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) challenges the foundations of mental health legislation. The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has stated that non-consensual psychiatric measures reinforce inequalit... Read More about Scotland: CRPD and Mental Health Legislation.

People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond (2023)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2023). People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond. In B. D. Kelly, & M. Donnelly (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Mental Health Law (166-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003226413

‘Learning disability’ is currently included in the statutory definition of ‘mental disorder’ used by Scottish capacity and mental health legislation, along with mental illness and personality disorder. This raises the general Convention on the Rights... Read More about People with Learning Disability: Scotland and Beyond.

Mental Capacity Regimes Approach to Values and Participation in Proceedings Involving Individuals With Impaired Decision-Making Capacity in Scotland (2023)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2023). Mental Capacity Regimes Approach to Values and Participation in Proceedings Involving Individuals With Impaired Decision-Making Capacity in Scotland. In C. Kong, J. Coggon, P. Cooper, M. Dunn, & A. Ruck Keene (Eds.), Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective. Bristol University Press

Chapter in 'Capacity, Participation and Values in Comparative Legal Perspective' edited by Camillia Kong, John Coggon, Penny Cooper, Michael Dunn and Alex Ruck Keene

Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice? (2020)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2020). Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice?. In C. Spivakovsky, L. Steele, & P. Weller (Eds.), The Legacies of Institutionalisation: Disability, Law and Policy in the ‘Deinstitutionalised’ Community. Hart Publishing

When enacted Scottish capacity and mental health legislation was internationally regarded as world leading in terms of presenting human rights-based approaches to interventions. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilitie... Read More about Scottish Mental Health and Capacity Law: Replacing the Old with the New or the Old in Policy, Law and Practice?.

Mental Health Law in a Global Context (2017)
Book Chapter
Stavert, J. (2017). Mental Health Law in a Global Context. In The Palgrave Handbook of Sociocultural Perspectives on Global Mental Health (329-349). Palgrave Macmillan

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