Kay Wilson

Psychiatric advance directives and consent to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in Australia: A legislative review and suggestions for the future

Kay Wilson, Subramanian Purushothaman, Uday Kolur

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY

Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs) have been adopted in many jurisdictions around the world and in most Australian states and t..

The CRPD and Mental Health Law: The Conflict About Abolition, the Practical Dilemmas of Implementation and the Untapped Potential

Kay Wilson

Book Chapter  |  2022

Mental Health Law Abolish Or Reform?

Kay Wilson

Thesis / Dissertation  |  2021

This title delves into mental health debates over abolition or reform, applying the socio-historical context to provide understand..

Mental Health Law Abolish or Reform?

Kay Wilson

Book  |  2021

Abolish or Reform? Kay Wilson. The experience of deinstitutionalization, as the 'first'abolition, however, also offers three lesso..

THE ABOLITION OR REFORM OF MENTAL HEALTH LAW: HOW SHOULD THE LAW RECOGNISE AND RESPOND TO THE VULNERABILITY OF PERSONS WITH MENTAL IMPAIRMENT?

Kay E Wilson

Journal article  |  2020  |  MEDICAL LAW REVIEW

Vulnerability theory challenges the assumption that human beings are abstract and invulnerable liberal subjects and insists that a..

The COVID-19 pandemic and the human rights of persons with mental and cognitive impairments subject to coercive powers in Australia

Kay Wilson

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the human rights of persons with mental and cogniti..

The Call for the Abolition of Mental Health Law: The Challenges of Suicide, Accidental Death and the Equal Enjoyment of the Right to Life

Kay Wilson

Journal article  |  2018  |  HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW

Mental health law provides for the involuntary detention and psychiatric treatment of persons with severe mental impairment. While..

The concept of capacity in Australian mental health law reform: Going in the wrong direction?

Bernadette McSherry, Kay Wilson

Journal article  |  2015  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW AND PSYCHIATRY

The six Australian states and two territories each have legislation that enables the involuntary detention and treatment of indivi..

Benevolent Paternalism or a Clash of Values: Motherhood and Refusal of Medical Treatment in Ireland

Kay Wilson, Penelope Weller

Journal article  |  2014  |  International Journal of Mental Health and Capacity Law

Fitzpatrick v. K [2008] IEHC 104 (25 April 2008) (H.Ct) (Ir.)

SECLUSION AND RESTRAINT PROJECT

Kay Wilson, BERNADETTE McSherry, JANET Clinton, CAROL Harvey, STUART Kinner, BRIDGET Hamilton, LISA Brophy, CATH Roper, ANNEGRET KAEMP, PIERS GOODING, HADEEL AL-NAWA, JUAN JOSE TELLEZ

Report  |  2014

In 2012, one of ten key recommendations made by the National Mental Health Commission (NMHC) (2012, p. 13) was to ‘reduce the use ..