Recent Presentations concerning the Otago CTO study

Updated: 5 November, 2007

'Concepts of liberty in mental health law', Inaugural Professorial Lecture, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, September 2007

'Human rights and mental health law in NZ', International Academy of Law and Mental Health conference, Padua, Italy, July 2007

'The Otago Community Treatment Order study: what have we learned?', International Academy of Law and Mental Health conference, Padua, Italy, July 2007

'The fusion of mental health and adult guardianship legislation', conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Lorne, Victoria, November 2006

'What determines the rate of use of community treatment orders?', Institute of Psychiatry, London, February 2006

'Why distinguish 'mental' and 'physical' illness in the law of involuntary treatment?', Law, Mind and Brain conference, University College, London, February 2006

'Community treatment orders in Victoria', invited address to a conference of the members of the Mental Health Review Board of Victoria, December 2005

'Community treatment orders in Victoria', invited address to a conference of the clinical staff of the mental health services of Victoria, Melbourne, November 2005

'Concepts of liberty in compulsory community care', keynote address, conference of the Australian and NZ Association
of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Wellington, November 2005

'Community treatment orders: international comparisons', keynote address, conference of the NZ branch of the RANZ College of Psychiatrists, Dunedin, October, 2005

'Legal and ethical issues in research with involuntary psychiatric patients', conference of the NZ branch of the RANZ College of Psychiatrists, Dunedin, October, 2005

‘The use of community treatment orders in Australasia’, and ‘Community treatment orders: international comparisons’, invited workshops for the meeting of the Macarthur Network on Mandated Community Treatment, Washington DC, June 2005

‘Revocation of compulsory outpatient status’, International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2004

‘The use of community treatment orders in Australasia’, Invited seminar, Psychology Dept, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, May 2004

'The proper use of community treatment orders’ and ‘The meaning of ‘mental disorder’ in the New Zealand Mental Health Act’, invited addresses to the NZ Mental Health Review Tribunal, Wellington, March 2003

'The proper use of community treatment orders: what do we know?', invited address to the Mental Health Review Tribunal of New South Wales, Sydney, December 2003

'The proper use of community treatment orders', Bioethics and Psychiatry joint grand round, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, October 2003

'Use of community treatment orders in Australasia', Pinel Institute and forensic hospital, Montreal, Canada, November 2003

'Concepts of liberty in compulsory community mental health care', International Academy of Law and Psychiatry conference, Sydney, October 2003; University of Toronto, October 2003; Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada, November 2003

'Ethical issues in research with compulsory psychiatric patients', International Academy of Law and Psychiatry conference, Sydney, October 2003

'Concepts of liberty in compulsory community care', invited law faculty seminar, University of Sydney, Sydney, September 2003

‘The proper use of community treatment orders: the international debate’, keynote address, ANZAPPL one-day conference, Brisbane, Australia, August 2003

‘Patients’ conceptions of their liberty and welfare under a community treatment order’, International Law & Psychology Conference, Edinburgh, July 2003

‘The deinstitutionalisation of mental health law’, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London; and Cardiff Law School, Cardiff University, Cardiff, June 2003

‘Community treatment orders: the debate in the English-speaking world’, Cantonal Hospital, Fribourg, Switzerland, June 2003