Tuesday 5 August 2008

This blog

As its description suggests, this blog will be about law, society and some things in between. In fact, its main focus will be on mental health and mental capacity law, and on other facets of the law that impact upon those who have mental disorder or lack capacity to make decisions. There will, of course, be discussion of the Mental Health Act and the Mental Capacity Act, but from time to time, the blog will also look at such subjects as inquests, ASBOs and the sharing of confidential information. This won’t however, be the place for a systematic analysis of those subjects. There will be no sub-paragraph by sub-paragraph dissection of the latest statute or regulations. That sort of thing can be found elsewhere. Any postings on this blog will be occasional and erratic, and they will often take an oblique, not to say idiosyncratic approach to their subject.