Disability, mental illness and the law
Understanding disability and the law
Disability: Asserting your rights
Disability and criminal justice
Mental illness
- Introduction
- Mental health treatment, capacity and consent
- Compulsory mental health treatment and patients
- Mental health crisis response and transport by authorised persons
- Safeguards and complaints
- Designated mental health services and other services
- Victorian Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission
- Other types of patients
- Security patients
- Forensic patients
- Information sharing, confidentiality and privacy of health information
- Mental health and human rights
- Where to get assistance
- Contacts
Guardianship and medical treatment
Understanding powers of attorney
- Introduction
- What is an enduring power of attorney?
- Key legislation related to powers of attorney
- Appointing an attorney
- An attorney’s duties
- VCAT’s role in relation to enduring powers of attorney
- Revoking an enduring power of attorney
- Supportive attorney
- Enduring power of attorney (medical)
- More information about powers of attorney
- Contacts
