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MarstonHarbottle, Solicitors
Orchard House
Priestpopple
Hexham
Northumberland, NE46 1PQ
Tel: 01434 602486
Fax: 01434 600229

Mental health law may seem an obscure area of the law, but did you know that at some stage in their lives, one in three people suffer from mental illness?

Thankfully, not that many sufferers end up being detained in hospital and their rights taken away from them. These people cannot chose where they want to live, what they want to do - they have only the freedoms granted to them by their Responsible Clinician.

To ensure that the Responsible Clinician has weighed in the balance the patient's potential danger against the loss of his or her human rights, Mental Health Tribunals exist to consider the case of everyone detained under any of the sections of the Mental Health Act 1983. Free Legal Aid is available to cover the cost of the patient's representation at these Tribunals.

Mental health is a particularly specialist area of the law, and one in which we have specialised for some years. Jane Marston is a Member of the Law Society's Panel of Specialist Mental Health Lawyers and is a member of Mind. She also sits as a part time Judge of the Mental Health Review Tribunal.

Only a handful of solicitors' practices hold a franchise from the Legal Services Commission in mental health law - MarstonHarbottle is one of these practices.

For more information, contact Jane Marston:
Telephone - 01434 602486
Fax - 01434 600229
E-mail - jmarston@marstonharbottle.com