Mental disability has come of age as a subject of concern under the European Convention on Human Rights. It was only in 1979 that the first significant decision

The United Nations' Decade of Disabled Persons has served as a time for standard setting in the field of human rights and disability, and has created the need t

There has been much debate about mental health law reform and mental capacity legislation in recent years with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with D

The adoption of the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities (CPRD) by the United Nations in 2006 is the first comprehensive and binding treaty on t

"This book evolved from an event entitled 'Global PhD and Researchers Colloquium on Disability Law & Policy' organised by the Centre for Disability Law and Poli