Mental Health Review Tribunals: Just or efficacious safeguards?

摘要: This paper is concerned with the operation of Mental Health Review Tribunal system and summarizes findings an empirical investigation tribunal decision making. The tribunals constitute independent body which reviews necessity for continued compulsory detention patients in psychiatric hospitals. research focuses on interpretation application mental health legislation by individual members manner these approaches are qualified group context. study comprises three stages: a self-report questionnaire, national statistical analysis decisions, simulation making using videotape hypothetical case. establishes considerable inconsistency at both level attributes some this to individually based factors isolated research. further indicate that remain influential within decision-making