The Advice and Legal Representation Project, set up in 1982, was the first legal and advice service for people with mental health problems to be based within a psychiatric hospital. The Project offers a free and independent service to hospital-based psychiatric patients. As it was a unique venture, the Project ...
Representation before Mental Health Review Tribunals has been the most problematic area in the relationship between the hospital and the Project. This paper is the result of a wish to examine the problems caused by representation at MHRTs by Project workers. the paper is in three parts: the mental health ...