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Title Mental health rights manual : a guide to the legal and human rights of people with a mental illness in NSW / Mental Health Co-ordinating Council Inc. ; edited by Lynne Spender ; project co-ordination by Gillian Church
Published Redfern, N.S.W. : Redfern Legal Centre Publishing, published with assistance from the Law Foundation of New South Wales, 1995

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Description xvi, 150 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents pt. 1. Mental illness - the social and legal framework -- 2. Rights in mental health care and treatment -- 3. The mental health review tribunal & the psychosurgery review board -- 4. Guardianship and protection -- 5. Pensions, benefits and allowances -- 6. Rights in accommodation -- 7. Employment -- 8 . Rights of children -- 9. Protect your rights
Analysis Accommodation
Human rights
Mental health
Mental health services
New South Wales
State issue
Welfare measures
Notes CIP changed: formerly without added entries for Spender, Lynne and Church, Gillian
CIP confirmed
Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Civil rights -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Civil rights -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Mental health laws -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Mentally ill -- Civil rights -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Civil Rights.
Mental Health.
Mental Health -- legislation & jurisprudence.
SUBJECT New South Wales. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009517
Genre/Form Legislation.
Author Church, Gillian
Spender, Lynne.
Mental Health Co-ordinating Council (N.S.W.)
LC no. 96108642
ISBN 0947205330