| Date: October 2009
Leading
Midlands law firm Cartwright King is
expanding its mental health team in Nottingham to meet the growing
demand for its specialist services.
Jill
Hawkins, who is a long established director in the criminal
department at Cartwright King, is now also working with the mental
health team, whilst maintaining her links with the Youth Court work.
Another addition to the mental health team is Laura Harrison, who
joins the firm as a paralegal. Both Jill and Laura join an
established team in Nottingham, which consists of associate Alison
Ward and solicitor Rachel Turner and is headed by Richard Boucher.
The
growth in this area for the firm has come from its increasing
reputation in the hospitals that it serves across the region and the
mental health act 2007, and an additional regulation in 2008, which
increases the requirement for patients to be represented at mental
health tribunals and when detained under the new Deprivation of
Liberty safeguards.
Richard
Boucher said “Cartwright King is keen to
ensure the representation that disadvantaged clients receive at
mental health tribunals is second to none. Our record in securing
the release or an improvement in the terms of those held under a
section is acknowledged as being that of a leader in the field in the
East Midlands. The growth of the team will ensure we can handle
these cases even more effectively and continue to be successful.”
Cartwright
King are recognised by the Law Society as experts in mental health
law and can represent patients or relatives in mental health review
tribunals and offer advice regarding civil detention, criminal
detention and those who are conditionally discharged. The firm also
deal with the detention of patients in hospital against their will,
and any other actions surrounding mental health issues.
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