Duncan Lewis can assist you in the following areas:
- Advice and assistance in all areas of the Mental Health Act 1983, including admission to hospital, consent to treatment and aftercare provisions
- Advising the nearest relatives of their role and rights
- Challenging the Decisions of Tribunals and Primary Care Trusts by way of Judicial Review Proceedings
- Commissioning independent psychiatric reports and social circumstances reports
- Lawfulness of detention and the appropriateness of treatment
- Provision of advice and assistance at Managers Hearings, Renewal meetings and can request to attend CPA
- Representation at Mental Health Review Tribunals