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Peter Bartlett

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health Law, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Expertise Summary

Following two degrees in philosophy at the University of Toronto, Peter Bartlett read law at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Canada. After his call to the bar in 1988, he served as Law Clerk to the Justice of the Ontario High Court and then as research associate to the Ontario Enquiry on Mental Competency. He obtained his doctorate in 1993, and joined the School of Law at the University of Nottingham, where in April 2005 he was appointed to the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Chair in Mental Health Law.

Professor Bartlett's research interests are primarily in the area of mental disability (including both psycho-social disability/mental illness and learning disability), both in England and Wales and internationally. He has provided advice regarding law reform in Lesotho and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and for six years (four as chair) served on the board of the Mental Disability Advocacy Center (MDAC), a human rights organisation based in Budapest. His research interests include the Mental Health Act 1983 (England and Wales), the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (England and Wales), and the European Convention on Human Rights and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. He is also interested in the history of law and psychiatry, particularly in England.

Teaching Summary

My primary teaching interests are in the area mental disability law (including both people with mental health/psychosocial disabilities and intellectual disability) but I also teach health care law… read more

Research Summary

Mental Health Law (historical and current);Murders of gay men (historical and current).

Recent Publications

PhD supervision

I am interested in supervising in all areas of mental health and mental disabilities law, and am open to a variety of theoretical, doctrinal and socio-legal approaches to those fields. Illustrative interests include;

  • The application of the Mental Health Act 1983 and the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (in both cases, as amended in 2007), either in general or with reference to particular groups of patients, and in either a civil or criminal context
  • The scope, interpretation, and application of international law, including the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), to persons with mental health problems/psychosocial disabilities and learning disabilities.
  • The use and effectiveness (if any!) of compulsion on these groups
  • The efficacy of legal remedies for these groups
  • The use and efficacy of discrimination law (eg., the Disability Discrimination Act) for these groups
  • Historical aspects of law relating to mental illness, mental disability and psychosocial disability.

Current PhD Students

  • Keeling, Amanda: The Human Rights of Vulnerable Adults (co-supervised with Professor Ruth McDonald)
  • Stray, Melanie: The Implementation of Community Treatment Orders in Mental Health Law (co-supervised with Mat Kinton, QQC)

Completed PhD Students

  • McRae, Leon : The Rehabilitation of Personality Disordered Offenders: A Foucauldian Analysis
  • Munro, Penelope: The Discreditation of Mad People within Legal and Psychiatric Decision Making: A Systems Theory Approach

My primary teaching interests are in the area mental disability law (including both people with mental health/psychosocial disabilities and intellectual disability) but I also teach health care law more broadly. In particular, I am interested in English mental health law (both current and historical), the application of the European Convention on Human Rights to people with mental disabilities, and the application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to people with mental disabilities.

  • BARTLETT, P, 2011. DSM-V and ICD-11 on personality disorder: A Lawyer's perspective Personality and Mental Health.
  • PETER BARTLETT, RACHEL JENKINS and DAVID KIIMA, 2011. Mental health law in the community: Thinking about Africa International Journal of Mental Health Systems. 5, 21
  • P BARTLETT, 2010. ‘Informal Admissions and Deprivation of Liberty under the Mental Capacity Act 2005’. In: GOSTIN, L, MCHALE, J, FENNELL, P, MACKAY, R and BARTLETT, P, eds., Principles of Mental Health Law Oxford University Press. 385-412
  • BARTLETT, P., MANTOVANI, N., CRATSLEY, K., DILLON, C. and EASTMAN, N., 2010. ‘You May Kiss the Bride, But You May Not Open Your Mouth When You Do So’: Policies Concerning Sex, Marriage and Relationships in English Forensic Psychiatric Facilities LIVERPOOL LAW REVIEW. VOL 31(NUMBER 2), 155-176
  • BARTLETT, P, 2010. Civil Confinement. In: GOSTIN, L, MCHALE, J, FENNELL, P and MACKAY R, BARTLETT, P., eds., Principles of Mental Health Law Oxford University Press. 412-472
  • GOSTIN, L, MCHALE, J, FENNELL P, MACKAY, R and BARTLETT, P, eds., 2010. Principles of Mental Health Law Oxford University Press.
  • BARTLETT, P., 2010. Sex, Dementia, Capacity and Care Homes LIVERPOOL LAW REVIEW. VOL 31(NUMBER 2), 137-154
  • BARTLETT, P, 2010. Stabbing in the Dark: English law relating to psychopathy. In: MCMILLAN, J and MALATESTI, L, eds., Responsibility and Psychopathy Oxford University Press. 25-40
  • BARTLETT, P and HAMZIC, V., 2010. Reforming Mental Health Law in Africa: Practical Tips and Suggestions Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham.
  • BARTLETT, P, 2010. ‘Thinking About the Rest of the World: Mental Health and Rights Outside the ‘First World’’.. In: MCSHERRY, B and WELLER, P, eds., Re-Thinking Rights-Based Mental Health Law Hart. 397-418
  • BARTLETT, P, 2009. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the future of mental health law Psychiatry. 18(1), 496-498
  • BARTLETT, P, 2009. The Code of Practice and the Ambiguities of ‘guidance' Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health. 19, 157-164
  • WRIGHT, N., BARTLETT, P. and CALLAGHAN, P., 2008. A review of the literature on the historical development of community mental health services in the United Kingdom Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 15, 229-237
  • P.BARTLETT, 2008. Mental Health Legislation. In: REPPER, J and BROOKER, C, eds., Implementing the National Service Framework for Mental Health: Principles, Practice and Research Elsevir. 296-307.
  • BARTLETT, P, 2008. Introduction to special edition of Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues on Mental Health Law Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues. 25, 5-8
  • BARTLETT, P, SIMMINS, T, ĐERIĆ, M and ZADRO, M., 2008. Analysis of the Mental Health Regulations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with Recommendations Council of Europe.
  • BARTLETT, P, 2008. Blackstone's Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 2nd. Oxford University Press.
  • BARTLETT, P, 2008. Mental Health Law After the Convention’. In: ONTARIO PSYCHIATRIC PATIENT ADVOCATE OFFICE (PPAO), ed., 25th Annual Report Queen's Printer for Ontario.
  • BARTLETT, P., 2007. Killing gay men, 1976-2001 British Journal of Criminology. 47(4), 573-595
  • BARTLETT, P. and SANDLAND, R., 2007. Mental health law: policy and practice 3rd ed.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • BARTLETT, P., 2007. A Matter of Necessity? Enforced Treatment under the Mental Health Act Medical Law Review. 15, 86-98
  • BARTLETT, P, 2007. On Historical Contextualisation: A Lawyer Responds Crimes and Midemeanours. 107-108
  • BARTLETT, P., LEWIS, O. and THOROLD, O., 2006. Mental disability and the European Convention on Human Rights Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff.
  • BARTLETT, P, 2006. Psychiatric Treatment: In the Absence of Law?: Case note on R (on the application of B) v Ashworth Hospital Authority and another [2005] U.K.H.L. 20 Medical Law Review. 14, 122-131
  • BARTLETT, P, 2006. Psychology, Law and Murders of Gay Men: Responding to Homosexual Advances. In: BROOKS-GORDON and FREEMAN, M, eds., Law and Psychology Oxford University Press. 302-317
  • BARTLETT, P., 2006. Human Rights? Of course … but what does that mean?. In: NEW ZEALAND MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION, ed., No-Force Advocacy by Users and survivors of Psychiatry Mental Health Commission, New Zealand. 23-29
  • BARTLETT, P., 2005. Blackstone's guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 Oxford: Oxford University Press,.
  • STEWART, R., BARTLETT, P. and HARWOOD, R. H., 2005. Mental capacity assessments and discharge decisions Age and Ageing. VOL 34(NUMBER 6), 549-550
  • BARTLETT, P., 2005. Steven Cherry. Mental Health Care in Modern England: The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum / St Andrew's Hospital, 1810-1998 Bulletin of the History of Medicine. VOL 79(NUMB 1), 147
  • BARTLETT, P. and WATCHIRS, H., 2005. Introduction to special edition on human rights and mental disorder International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 28:2, 97-98
  • BARTLETT, P. and WATCHIRS, H., eds., 2005. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
  • BARTLETT, P., 2005. Mental Disability and Human Rights in an International Context. In: Essential Guide to Human Rights Hodder Arnold, London, UK. 252-255
  • BARTLETT, P., 2004. Review of Jill Peay, <i>Decisions and Dilemmas: Working with Mental Health Law</i> (Oxford: Hart, 2003) Common Law World Review. 33, 373-375
  • BARTLETT, P., 2004. Capacity, Treatment and Human Rights Journal of Mental Health Law. 10, 52-66
  • BARTLETT, P and SANDLAND, R., 2003. Mental health law: policy and practice 2nd ed.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • BARTLETT, P and SANDLAND, R., 2003. Mental health law: policy and practice 2nd ed.. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • BARTLETT, P., 2003. Adults, mental illness and incapacity: convergence and overlap in legal regulation Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. VOL 25(PART 4), 341-354
  • BARTLETT,P., 2003. Capacity and Confinement: When is Detention Not 'Detention'?. In: Involuntary Detention and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: International Perspectives on Civil Confinement Dartmouth Publishing Co. Ltd, Aldershot. 339-359
  • BARTLETT, P and MCHALE, J, 2003. Mental Incapacity and Mental Health: The Development of Legal Reform and the Need for Joined-Up Thinking Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law. 25(4), 313-324
  • BARTLETT, P., 2003. Remembering the 1980s: Lessons and Nostalgia. In: Mental Health and Patient Rights in Ontario: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  • BARTLETT, P., 2002. Introduction: new approaches to established themes in the history of psychiatry International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. VOL 25(NUMBER 4), 299-302
  • BARTLETT, P., 2002. Review of M. Jackson, The borderland of imbecility: Medicine, Society and the fabrication of the feeble mind in late Victorian and Edwardian England (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2000)
  • BARTLETT, P., 2001. Eric J Engstrom, Matthias M Weber, Paul Hoff (eds), Knowledge and power: perspectives in the history of psychiatry Medical History. VOL 45(PART 3), 410-411
  • BARTLETT, P, 2001. English Mental Health Reform: Lessons from Ontario? Journal of Mental Health Law. 27-43
  • BARTLETT, P., 2001. Legal Madness in the Nineteenth Century Social History of Medicine. VOL 14(PART 1), 107-132
  • BARTLETT, PETER and SANDLAND, RALPH, 2000. Mental health law : policy and practice / Peter Bartlett and Ralph Sandland London : Blackstone, 2000.
  • BARTLETT, P., 2000. Review of Emmiline Garnett, John Marsden's Will: The Hornby Castle Dispute, 1780-1840 Social History of Medicine. 13, 333-334
  • BARTLETT, P., 2000. Madness and Asylums in Modern Europe. In: Scribners Encyclopaedia of European Society History from 1350-2000 Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, NY. 429-443
  • BARTLETT, P., 2000. Casenote on R v The Mental Health Review Tribunal, Torfaen Country Borough Council, Gwent Health Authority, ex p Russell Hall Journal of Forensic Psychiatry. 11:2, 419-428
  • BARTLETT, P. and WRIGHT, D., 2000. Community Care and its Antecedents. In: Outside the Walls of the Asylum Athlone Press, London. 1-19
  • BARTLETT, P., 2000. Structures of Confinement in 19th-Century Asylums International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. VOL 23(NUMBER 1), 1-13
  • BARTLETT, P., 2000. The Mental Health Act: Tacking Stock of the Current Position and Thinking about the Future. In: Current Legal Issues Oxford University Press, Oxford. 537-558
  • BARTLETT, P., 2000. Leonard D Smith, `Cure, comfort and safe custody': public lunatic asylums in early nineteenth-century England Medical History. VOL 44(PART 4), 557
  • BARTLETT, P., 1999. The Asylum and the Poor Law: The Produtive Alliance. In: Insanity, Institutions and Society - New Perspectives on the Social History of Madness Routledge, London and New York. 48-67
  • BARTLETT, P., 1999. Outside the Walls of the Asylum: The History of Care in the Community 1750-2000 Athlone Press, London.
  • BARTLETT, P., 1999. The Poor Law of Lunacy: The Administration of Pauper Lunatics in Nineteenth-Century England Leicester University Press, London.
  • BARTLETT, P., 1999. Review of Carl Stychin, A Nation by Rights: National Cultures, Sexual Identity Politics and the Discourse of Rights Public Law. 778-779
  • BARTLETT, P., 1999. Peregrine Horden, Richard Smith (eds), The locus of care: families, communities, institutions and the provision of welfare since antiquity Medical History. VOL 43(NUMBER 1), 125
  • BARTLETT, P., 1999. The Lawrence Enquiry and the Possibilities of Change. In: Hutchinson Almanac Helicon, Oxford.
  • BARTLETT, P. and WRIGHT, D., 1999. The Victorian Antecedents to Care in the Community Journal of Mental Health. 404-405
  • BARTLETT, P., 1998. Silence and Sodomy: The Creation of Homosexual Identity in Law Modern Law Review. VOL 61(NUMBER 1), 102-114
  • BARTLETT, P., 1998. The Asylum, the Workhouse, and the Voice of the Insane Poor in 19th-Century England International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. VOL 21(NUMBER 4), 421-432
  • BARTLETT, P., 1997. The Consequences of Incapacity Web Journal of Current Legal Issues. 4,
  • BARTLETT, P., 1997. Sodomites in the Pillory in Eighteenth-century London Social and Legal Studies. VOL 6(NUMBER 4), 553-572
  • BARTLETT, P., 1997. Doctors as Fiduciaries: Equitable Regulation of the Doctor-Patient Relationship Medical Law Review. VOL 5(NUMBER 2), 193-224
  • BARTLETT, P., 1997. Judging Disability: The Problem of Ableism Human Rights Law Review. 2:3, 2
  • BARTLETT, P., 1997. Casenote on Winnipeg Child and Family Sercies v DFG University of British Columbia Law Review. 31, 179-198
  • BARTLETT, P., 1996. Law and Nonsense: Delusion as the limitation of Sanity in Nineteenth-Century Law. In: Law and the Senses Pluto Press, London. 21-41
  • BARTLETT, P., 1995. Michael Clark and Catherine Crawford (eds.), Legal Medicine in History Social History of Medicine. VOL 8(NUMBER 2), 321
  • BARTLETT, P., 1994. Review of Still and Velody, Re-Writing the History of Madness Social History of Medicine. 7:3, 538
  • BARTLETT, P., 1994. A fair hearing for insiders with convictions, Review of E. Cummins, The Rise and Fall of California's Radical Prison Movement Times Higher Education Supplement. 26
  • BARTLETT, P., 1994. Review of T. Anderson and A. McGillivray, Adversaria: Literature and Law University of Toronto Quarterly. 65:1, 164
  • HARRISON, G. and BARTLETT, P., 1994. Supervision registers for mentally ill people BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL. VOL 309(ISSUE 6954), 551
  • BARTLETT, P., MARSHALL, M. and NAKATSU, C., 1990. Canadian Health Case Law Digest Butterworths, London, UK; Markham, Ontario, Canada.
  • BARTLETT, P., 1988. Mental Health Law: The Advocates Manual 2nd.
  • BARTLETT, P., 1987. Mental Health Law: The Advocates Manual
  • BARTLETT, P., 1986. Sexual Distinctions in Pensions and Insurance Osgoode Hall Law Journal. 24, 833-865
  • BARTLETT, P., 1986. Reform of the Office of the Public Trustee University of Western Ontario Law Review. 24, 79-101
  • WRIGHT, N, CALLAGHAN, P and BARTLETT, P, Mental Health Service Users and Practitioners Experiences of Engagement in Assertive Outreach Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing.

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