I’ve created a new resources page for the Mental Health Bill 2025 (as the Government’s website confusingly calls it, despite its introduction to Parliament in 2024. It will also be accessible via home page of the website and the menu (top right) should you wish to find it later in the Parliamentary process. The next […]

Read More Mental Health Bill Resources

We have this week seen introduction to Parliament of a Mental Health Bill for its consideration. What follows is the full, amended text of sections 135 and 136 Mental Health Act 1983, including s136B, as they will be if and only if the Bill makes its way through Parliament to Royal Assent without amendment. NB! […]

Read More The ‘New’ Sections 135-136

We finally have a Bill to read! Some eight years after (then) Prime Minister Theresa May asked Professor Sir Simon Wessely to review the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA), we can now read the Mental Health Bill 2024 which will begin its journey through Parliament. Professor Ginerva Richardson, who chaired the previous, 1999 review of […]

Read More The Mental Health Bill 2024