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As the Mental Health Bill 2025 came in to being after the Mental Health Act review, there was discussion about whether the MHA principles found in the Code of Practice to the Act should be moved in to the Act itself.  The Mental Capacity Act‘s guiding principles are statutory, in s1(1) MCA and that was […]

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Where can section 136 Mental Health Act 1983 be exercised in shared areas of dwellings? – a new Preventing Future Deaths report has raised this question after a Coroner stated officers did not “understand that their powers under section 136 MHA 1980 applied to persons in a communal space within private accommodation.” Let’s get the […]

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A short page / resources page of the section 136 Mental Health Act 1983 data published by the Home Office for each financial year since proper records began (2016). I was motivated to do this for my own benefit, mainly! – it’s so frustrating having to Google search or blog search and then not easily […]

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