Canadian anthology on mental health and the law

Detailed table of contents available 

• Chapter 1: Mental Health and Legal Education 

• Chapter 2: British Columbia’s Mental Health Act: Deemed “Consent” Is Not Consent
• Chapter 3: Transformation of Alberta’s Mental Health Act 
• Chapter 4: Ontario’s Mental Health Act: Administrative Review of Long-Term Psychiatric Detention 
• Chapter 5: Supporting Hospitals and Health Care Practitioners Before Provincial Civil Mental Health Tribunals 
• Chapter 6: Mental Healthcare Decision-Making Rights in Canada 
• Chapter 7: Indigenous People and Psychiatric “Non-Compliance” as Resistance
• Chapter 8: Examining the Impact of Part 3 of British Columbia’s Adult Guardianship Act 
• Chapter 9: Elder Law: Unlawful Detention of Older Adults in Various Facilities 

• Chapter 10: The Edmonton Mental Health Court 
• Chapter 11: Peterborough Community Support Court: The Middle Road 
• Chapter 12: The Therapeutic Court Approach vs. An Individualized Approach in the East Region Through the Eyes of Defence Counsel 
• Chapter 13: Mental Health Courts: Integrating Risk-Need-Responsivity Principles to Improve Outcomes 
• Chapter 14: Exploring the Role of Trauma in Drug Treatment Courts
• Chapter 15: Substance Use Disorder, the History of Drug Criminalization in Canada, and Hopes for Future Drug Policies 

• Chapter 16: The Taylor Test for Fitness Revisited in R. v. Bharwani 
• Chapter 17: Forensic Psychiatric Perspective and Approach to Fulsome NCR Evaluations, Opinions and the Court 
• Chapter 18: Actuarial Risk Assessments in Forensic Psychiatry: Tools, History, Use, Advantages and Criticisms 
• Chapter 19: The Role of Psychology in the Forensic Mental Health System: Scope of Practice and Common Assessment Questions
• Chapter 20: Section 16 of the Canadian Criminal Code and the Meaning of “Incapable” of “Knowing” One’s Act or Omission Is “Wrong” 
• Chapter 21: Ineffective Legal Advice Re NCR: Forensic Client Eye View on Effective and Ineffective LEGAL Counsel 
• Chapter 22: “Gladue” – Indigenous People and Mental Health Issues in the Criminal Law 
• Chapter 23: The Role of Amicus Curiae in Criminal Trials With Self-Represented Accused Where Mental Health Is An Issue: R. v. Kahsai 
• Chapter 24: Fitness Post-Determination of Guilt But Pre-Sentence: A Tricky Situation 
• Chapter 25 : Mental Health as a Factor in Sentencing 
• Chapter 26: Miscarriages of Justice and Mental Health 

• Chapter 27: Indefinite Detention Under Part XX.1 of the Criminal Code and Winko v. British Columbia 
• Chapter 28: The Involuntary NCR Verdict and the Review Board’s Jurisdiction to Proceed in Abstentia 
• Chapter 29: Testifying at Provincial Review Boards 
• Chapter 30: Representing the Person in Charge of the Psychiatric Facility at Criminal Code Review Board Hearings 
• Chapter 31: Anti-Black Racism in Forensic Psychiatry and Litigating the Issue Before the Ontario Review Board 
• Chapter 32: Nunavumi Maligalikinikmun Katimajin – The Nunavut Review Board, a Unique Board Facing Unique Challenges 
• Chapter 33: Experience as a Psychologist and Victim of an NCR Offence 
• Chapter 34: NCR and Unfit Non-Citizens: The Limitations and Risks for Those Who Want to Stay In and for those Who Want to Leave Canada 
• Chapter 35: Mechanisms of “Return” to Hospital Under the Ontario Review Board 
• Chapter 36: Musical Chairs: Patient Transfers Under Rule 13 of the Ontario Review Board 

• Chapter 37: Inquiring Into the Inquisitorial Role of Ontario’s Mental Health Tribunals 
• Chapter 38: One Size Only Fits Some: “Different Modes for Different Folks” — Ensuring Access to Justice for Vulnerable Parties at Hearings of Ontario’s Mental Health Tribunals 
• Chapter 39: Administration of Justice Issues in Mental Health/Mental Disorder Appeals in the Court of Appeal for Ontario

• Chapter 40: Mental Health Inquests – Institutional and Custodial Deaths
• Chapter 41: Police-Involved Deaths of Black Persons in Crisis
• Chapter 42: Indigenous People and Mental Health Explored at Ontario Coroner’s Inquests
• Chapter 43: Civilian Mobile Crisis Services 

• Chapter 44: Seclusion and Restraint in Psychiatric Facilities: Toward Minimal Restraint in Ontario’s Maximum Security Hospital 
• Chapter 45: Mental Health Care in Corrections and Charter Issues
• Chapter 46: Habeas Corpus and Psychiatric Detention 
• Chapter 47: Medical Assistance in Dying: Implications of Legal Expansion for Persons With Mental Illness 
• Chapter 48: Interaction of Mental Health and Criminal Laws for Patients in Police or Correctional Custody in Acute Care 
• Chapter 49: Legal Issues Family Members of Persons With Serious Mental Health Issues Face 
• Chapter 50: Artificial Intelligence at the Intersection of Mental Health Care, Science and the Law