Your challenges
Mental health law is difficult and challenging, and that is just the lawyers!
Mental health professionals have recently faced many legislative changes. We have delivered training on the amendments to the Mental Health Act (MHA) and on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards to ensure that trust staff have understood the implications and impact of these changes.
Achieving your ambitions
Whatever your mental health law requirements, we can help. We understand that you need to provide patient care in a challenging and demanding environment.
Our experience will be used for your benefit. We advise on interpretation of the amended MHA. We provide support/representation at inquests and tribunals. We work with clients to facilitate treatment of patients such as those with eating disorders. We ensure you receive timely, pre-emptive advice to avoid litigation but if proceedings are issued we will robustly defend your position.
The strength you need
You will have a team of two partners and eight lawyers to help you deal with the complex world of mental health law. You’ll also have access to a range of specialists in, for example, healthcare and public law to ensure that you receive a complete service. Clients that we’ve helped include Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust.
Lawyers you can trust
Our mental health team is highly rated by Chambers UK. We are described as “combining personalised service with great depths of resources”. Our clients have described us as “absolutely excellent”, “extremely responsive” and “analytical with a high level of expertise”.
In this year's Legal 500 it said "Jill Mason's team is the top choice for health: whatever you need, they will be able to help."