Professor Jill Peay, NAB 6.11  The course is taught in the Michaelmas term at Kings College by Professor Genevra Richardson. Students from Kings are taught alongside those from the LSE.

For LLM students and (with permission) MSc Criminal Justice Policy.

This course, together with its related full course LL458, is subject to an overall cap of 30 students. Students must apply through Graduate Course Choice on LSEforYou.

This course aims to integrate a practical and theoretical understanding of mental health law, as it relates both to mental illness and mental incapacity. It is not intended to provide a comprehensive understanding of the law in England and Wales, but rather aims at broader conceptual understanding of the problem areas that are likely to bedevil mental health law across many jurisdictions. The course makes reference to both the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

There is no single satisfactory text. B. Hale (2010) Mental Health Law5th Edition.  Sweet and Maxwell is the best up to date text available.  P Bartlett & R Sandland, Mental Health Law. Policy and Practice, Oxford University Press will be published in a new edition in 2011/12.

Weekly seminars of two hours for 10 weeks in MT.

One essay of 2,000 words to be submitted by the last day of term.

Two hour unseen examination in ST (100%). Students taking both this half unit course and LL4K7 Mental Health Law: The Criminal Context (H) sit one three-hour exam in the ST: LL458 Mental Health Law.