SEATTLE — Lawyers for mentally ill criminal defendants want a federal judge to force Washington officials to provide timely mental health services, opposi.
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£1 billion pledged to revolutionise mental health care – Berkshire …
Almost a billion pounds of investment to enhance mental health services across the country has been promised by the Prime Minister. The announcements have also been recommended by NHS England's independent …
Eleven Disability Groups File Brief in New York Assisted Suicide Case
On January 6, Not Dead Yet and ten other national and New York state disability rights organizations have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in the New York Appellate Division in support of a lower court ruling dismissing a case …
Court orders man with mental illness to compensate stabbing victim …
A young man, who is said to have a history of mental illness, has been ordered by the court to pay compensation of $9,400 to Jimmy Joseph, who he stabbed in June 2014. Kenneth Francis of Fond St. Jean stabbed Joseph 17 …
Disability Rights Campaigners Lose Court Challenge – Bioethics.com
(BBC) – Disability rights campaigners who say the assisted suicide policy in England and Wales is too "liberal" have lost a High Court legal challenge. The.