The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (in press)
The CRPD and Mental Health Law Reform in Scotland. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2024.101991
Scotland's mental health and capacity legislation and its implementation is underpinned by European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) informed principles, and such legislation...
Law, Rights and Childhood: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Its Implementation in Bhutan
Book Chapter
Whitecross, R. W. (2024)
Law, Rights and Childhood: United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Its Implementation in Bhutan. In S. Kumagai, M. Álvarez Ortega, F. Pommaret, & A. Balikci Denjongpa (Eds.), Traditional Neighbours, Different Modernities (461-481). Kyoto, Japan: Trans Pacific Press
Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry Research: Update of Health and Social Care research covering the period February 2022 to 31 December 2022
Report
Report commissioned by Scottish COVID-19 Public Inquiry to update previous research into strategic response of Scottish Government to COVID pandemic in relation to health and ...
The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland: the views and experiences of Patients, Named Persons, Practitioners and Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland members
Report
Stavert, J., Brown, M. J., & McDonald, A. (2022)
The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland: the views and experiences of Patients, Named Persons, Practitioners and Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland members. Nuffield Foundation
Extending the judicial checklist in Scottish family court cases: an exercise of caution or a missed opportunity?
Journal Article
Barnes Macfarlane, L. (2022)
Extending the judicial checklist in Scottish family court cases: an exercise of caution or a missed opportunity?. Edinburgh Law Review, 26(1), 107-112. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2022.0743
Queer Politics of post-Enlightenment: Beyond the Horizon of the Present
Journal Article
Kulpa, R. (2021)
Queer Politics of post-Enlightenment: Beyond the Horizon of the Present. Hungarian Studies Review, 48(2), 199-208. https://doi.org/10.5325/hungarianstud.48.2.0199
This essay reflects on queer politics in Central and Eastern European (CEE) through the examples of Poland and Hungary using the Derridean concept of “supplement” to expose th...
The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience and New Care Optics
Journal Article
Kulpa, R., & Ludwin, K. (2021)
The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience and New Care Optics. interalia: a journal of queer studies, 16, 82-94. https://doi.org/10.51897/interalia/rgrq6813
In this article, we call for greater recognition of friendship as a basic social relation that should play a pivotal role in re-imagining social resilience if it is to be futu...
Supported Decision-Making and Paradigm Shifts: Word Play or Real Change?
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2021)
Supported Decision-Making and Paradigm Shifts: Word Play or Real Change?. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.571005
Article 12(3) CRPD requires states parties to provide access by persons with disabilities to the support they may require in exercising their legal capacity. This is to ensure...
Mental health advance statements: crossing the divide from clinical to law enforcement settings
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2021)
Mental health advance statements: crossing the divide from clinical to law enforcement settings. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 28(1), 102-106. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12695
It is clear that police in many jurisdictions are increasingly being called out to situations involving persons with mental distress. In Scotland, for example, notifications o...
Respecting the autonomy of the living and dying
Journal Article
Stavert, J. (2020)
Respecting the autonomy of the living and dying. Journal of Integrated Care, 28(4), 379-385. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-06-2020-0038
Purpose
To inform those who are supporting persons who are dying and are responsible for planning, commissioning or delivering palliative care about the need to support and ma...