Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01786 · Session 5

Prosecutions under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003

Closed Submitted 15 Jan 2020 Justice
Signatures
0
26 online signatures with a country
Comments
10
Considered
4 meetings
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to investigate why there have been no prosecution under either section 315 or section 318 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003.

What the petitioner did first

I have contacted Jackie Baillie MSP.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 19 Mar 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  2. 29 Oct 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention
  3. 22 Sep 2021
    Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention
  4. 19 Jan 2022
    Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee
    Continued Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

26 online signatures
  1. Scotland12 46.2%
  2. United Kingdom7 26.9%
  3. England3 11.5%
  4. Croatia1 3.8%
  5. Netherlands1 3.8%
  6. Ireland1 3.8%
  7. United States1 3.8%

Comments

10 comments, oldest first
  1. Hunter Watson 16 Jan 2020
    The 2003 Mental Health Act does not provide for a complaints handling procedure. Neither the mental health tribunal nor the Mental Welfare Commission is required
    to investigate complaints
  2. Tommy Loudon 16 Jan 2020
    At the moment there are no safeguards or Human Rights woven into Mental Health Services. It's designed to exploit patients. The Psychotropic
    Drugs are the first thing Clinicians reach for. They are a risk to themselves and a risk to others.
    All will be revealed.
  3. Maurice Frank 16 Jan 2020
    It was powers of this nature, in their 1980s incarnation, that, in a Western democracy, enabled a mental health unit to nurse to announce that they were going "to get you in here and change you."
  4. Anne Greig 17 Jan 2020
    I urge the Scottish Parliament to investigate to stop this injustice within the Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation.within Mental Health
  5. Gary Ballantyne 22 Jan 2020
    Scotland has a broken seal when it comes to human rights, the mental health act is being abused and manipulated by courts, councils and health professionals. Curator ad litems are not even regulated ! The moral agent of MWC has been corrupted. The criminals seem to be charge now, no true checks nor balance of powers.
  6. Mrs Claire Patricia Muir 25 Jan 2020
    Even if Psychiatric Rights Scotland have to stand up for Human Rights alone we will stand up for Human Rights.
  7. Arthur Mc Farlane 25 Jan 2020
    The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Our human rights rights can be stolen from us but we are not giving them up.
  8. Keith Harper 30 Jan 2020
    Very important for services to clearly understand individuals fundemental human rights (and acts of law) must be upheld.
  9. Monaka Bibi 1 Feb 2020
    Family member was drugged needlessly with clozapin, they are 23yrs old. They now have tachardia, parkinsoms, muscle loss, diabetes, vision loss, liver problems, thyroid problems, cognitive deficit, hair loss, skin rash.
    They were never violent or delusional just autistic
  10. Jeanette Fraga 10 Feb 2020
    Psychiatric drugs are drugs, not medicine.