Burns et a!, 1995). However, these legal options were discarded by the DoH as being inconsistent with Article S of the European Convention on Human Rights (Department of Health, 1993b).With the exception of convicted patients, it is unlawful within the European Convention to detain a patient (perhaps even including forcibly conveying them as the new Act allows) unless they suffer from a mental disorder warranting detention, impliedly in hospital (Winterwerp V.The Netherlands, 1979).The DoH acknowledged this essential legal barrier to any frankly coercive treatment in the community.Leaving aside the moral and civil rights debate relating to rea! coercive legal control, is aftercare under supervision (ACUS) likely to offer some control?A proper and broader question is whether it will offer therapeutic advantage to patients, in terms of â€oe¿ thera peutic jurisprudence―.that is, the therapeutic effect ofparticular legal rules (Wexler, 1991).
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Nigel Eastman (1997) studied this question.
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