Defending Mentally Disordered Persons - Softcover

Kris Gledhill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903307287 ISBN 13: 9781903307281

Publisher: Legal Action Group, 2012

Synopsis

Defending Mentally Disordered Persons is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to representing persons with mental disorder in the criminal justice system. Lawyers representing potentially vulnerable clients need to consider what special needs their clients may have and apply the relevant legal provisions with that in mind. This book provides the bridge between mental health law and criminal law and provides criminal practitioners with the necessary tools to navigate the appropriate route through the criminal justice system if the client may have a mental disorder.

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About the Author

Kris Gledhill is a barrister and senior lecturer in law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His practice covers criminal appeals and public law and his research interests are mental health law, prison law, human rights law and comparative criminal law. He is editor of the Mental Health Law Reports and the Prison Law Reports and author of Mental health tribunals: essential cases (2009) (all published by Southside Legal Publishing). Kris is also on the board of directors of the Association of Commonwealth Criminal Lawyers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Legal Action Group
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1903307287
• ISBN 13: 9781903307281
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 848