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# MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2001

This year
2024
Long-delayed new mental health law to be brought forward before the summer
All time
'Role of family' in mental health patients' care to be considered in new legislation
Loophole means 'voluntary' mental health patients have diminished right to appeal detention
Reform of Ireland's mental health laws delayed as heads of bill not expected until the end of the year
Mental health patients to be re-examined due to emergency legislation to address 'unconstitutional' law
Minister to draft emergency legislation after court finds part of mental health law is unconstitutional
'The de facto detained are still there': Voluntary patients still held without review due to delays in law reform
'Committing' the homeless during Storm Emma: An improper use of the Mental Health Act 2001?
Mairead Leen
Electroshock still used without consent despite promises
Number of admission assistants for mental health patients halved since 2007
The ‘defacto detained’: How voluntary patients can be held without review
Minister Lynch: ‘Unwilling’ patients no longer to receive electric shock therapy
Law reform could expedite appeals over mental health detention