# \#ethics **URL:** https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/tag/ethics/9.md [Latest](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/tags.md) --- ## [Discharge from community mental health services after ethics committee meeting](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/discharge-from-community-mental-health-services-after-ethics-committee-meeting/4357)
**Author:** [@Daisy2019](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/u/Daisy2019)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [6 October 2025 12:47 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/discharge-from-community-mental-health-services-after-ethics-committee-meeting/4357 "2025-10-06T12:47:24Z")
Hi the SU with a diagnosis of EUPD has been discharged from community mental health services following a ethics committee meeting which the SU was told nothing about. And a universal care plan, which was told to the SU t… --- ## [Giving client copies of section papers](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/giving-client-copies-of-section-papers/2031)
**Author:** [@Karen](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/u/Karen)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [28 November 2023 12:08 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/giving-client-copies-of-section-papers/2031 "2023-11-28T12:08:44Z")
If your client wants copies of their section papers but you are aware that they are planning to harass the AMHP who sectioned them, would you simply hand them over? --- ## [Should a Magistrate issue a s135(1)(b) MHA 1983 warrant solely on the basis the subject has a mental disorder and is refusing to take his/her medication?](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/should-a-magistrate-issue-a-s135-1-b-mha-1983-warrant-solely-on-the-basis-the-subject-has-a-mental-disorder-and-is-refusing-to-take-his-her-medication/1043)
**Author:** [@AnetKalu](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/u/AnetKalu)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [3 July 2022 10:19 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/should-a-magistrate-issue-a-s135-1-b-mha-1983-warrant-solely-on-the-basis-the-subject-has-a-mental-disorder-and-is-refusing-to-take-his-her-medication/1043 "2022-07-03T10:19:01Z")
The dilemma I was once asked by a frustrated healthcare professional how a mental health practitioner is expected to evidence to the court that a schizophrenic is unable to care for himself so that a warrant can be obta… --- ## [Confidential information](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/confidential-information/778)
**Author:** [@Karen](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/u/Karen)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [2 April 2022 15:42 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/confidential-information/778 "2022-04-02T15:42:19Z")
I have received an unsolicited email from somebody providing highly prejudicial and credible information about a client. The email has also been sent to the hospital and to an MP. The writer has not requested that the in… --- ## [Giving option of informal or 5(2)](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/giving-option-of-informal-or-5-2/697)
**Author:** [@MentalHealthNurse](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/u/MentalHealthNurse)\ **Replies:** 5\ **Last updated:** [25 November 2021 16:52 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/giving-option-of-informal-or-5-2/697 "2021-11-25T16:52:11Z")
If an individual has agreed to go to hospital informally - whether that is through the course of an MHA assessment, from a community team direct to the ward, or gatekept at first presentation as not being suitable for ho… --- ## [Right to healthcare when sectioned](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/right-to-healthcare-when-sectioned/465)
**Author:** [@Angel320](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/u/Angel320)\ **Replies:** 1\ **Last updated:** [3 May 2021 15:54 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/right-to-healthcare-when-sectioned/465 "2021-05-03T15:54:01Z")
Is there anything in law that provides protection to someone sectioned under section 3 of the mental health act so that the person can receive general healthcare that someone who isn’t sectioned can get access to? Aspec… --- ## [Giving tribunal date to client](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/giving-tribunal-date-to-client/168)
**Author:** [@Karen](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/u/Karen)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [5 November 2020 13:49 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/giving-tribunal-date-to-client/168 "2020-11-05T13:49:23Z")
A new fee earner joined our firm a couple of years ago. She has an agreement, going back many years, with a local hospital that she will not give the date of the tribunal to one of her established clients until the day o…