Date: 26-27 June 2018

Venue: University of Nottingham

Programme timetable (overall) can be found here

Parrallel session timetable can be found here

Mental disability law (including both mental health law and mental capacity law) in the UK has come into its own in recent years, and there is now a wide range of researchers active in the field, in a variety of disciplines, along with people with lived experience.

The conference is sponsored by the School of Law at the University of Nottingham and the Institute of Mental Health, and is endorsed by the Human Rights Law Centre of the University of Nottingham.

The conference will combine plenary and breakout sessions. Confirmed plenaries and speakers include:

What do we want from a new Mental Health Act?

• Simon Wessely, Chair of the Independent Review into the Mental Health Act
• Diana Rose, Professor of user-led research, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London
• Colin McKay, Chief Executive, Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland

The effects of austerity

• Julie Gosling, Director, Making Waves
• Iris Elliott, Head of policy and research, Mental Health Foundation
• Paul Atkinson, Free Psychotherapy Network

UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: What is this ‘New Paradigm’?

• Margret Osterfeld, member (Germany), Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture
• Georg Hoyer, member (Norway), European Committee for the Prevention of Torture
• Dainius Puras, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health
• Eilionoir Flynn, Centre for Disability Law and Policy, NUI (Galway)
• Dorothy Gould, National Survivor User Network (NSUN)

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