Australian Mental Health Review Tribunal (MHRT) conducts a hearing in an inquisitorial and non-adversarial way focusing on the objects, intent and civil rights of the consumer (section 3 Mental Health Act 2007). To what extent does the MHRT promote human rights obligations, particularly the recognition of the people living with mental illness as an equal subject before law as envisaged in Article 5 and 12 of the Convention on the Rights of Person with Disabilities (CRPD). Does participation and representation before the MHRT hearing process deliver a therapeutic outcome for the consumer. In your response you may focus on issues concerning involuntary admission, appeal and community treatment orders.
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