The Law Handbook 2024

1232 Index Medicare Australia 730 complaints line 730 integration into Services Australia 314 Ombudsman, complaints to 730, 1085 Medicare Benefits Program privacy of information 1111 Medicare Levy 396 Melbourne Assessment Prison (MAP) 224, 226, 229, 814 Melbourne City Mission 238 Melbourne East Disability Advocacy 793 Melbourne Magistrates’ Court 13, 29, 38, 353 see also Magistrates’ Court Melbourne Sexual Health Centre 167 Melbourne University Student Union Legal Service 74, 94 MensLine Australia 238, 305 mental disorder see mental illness; mental impairment Mental Health Advice and Response Service (MHARS) 806 Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission (MHWC) 801, 841 assistance from 849 complaints process 842 complaints to 797, 801, 821, 841 conciliation 842 contact details 802, 850 establishment 841 functions 841 human rights compliance 848 Mental Health Complaints Commission replaced by 841 prisoner complaints 237 prisoners corresponding with 231 privacy complaints 1118 right of communication with 823 unnecessary restraint complaints 839 website 801, 802 mental health and wellbeing service providers 818–19, 840 complaints about 841–2 definition 818–19, 840 Mental Health Complaints Commissioner see now Mental Health and Wellbeing Commission Mental Health Legal Centre (MHLC) 62, 91, 793, 798 advance statement assistance 799 Bolton Clarke Homeless Persons Program 799 contact details 91, 793, 799, 801, 850 Health Justice Partnerships 799 Inside Access Program 799 prisoners contacting 814 services 798–9 Mental Health Tribunal (MHT) 829, 849 access to documents, application for 835 adjournment of hearings 835 appeal to VCAT from 835 assistance from 849 contact details 817, 850 CSTO, determination regarding 814 duty lawyers 64 hearings 829, 834–5 Human Rights Charter compliance 729, 848 interpreters at hearings 834 legal aid 63, 64 matters heard by 829 reasons for decisions 835 right to statement of 835 review of decisions 835 self-representation 77 summoning witnesses 835 treatment orders hearings 834–5 making 832 revocation, application for 834 website 849, 850 Mental Health Victoria 850 mental illness 818–50 see also disability access to documents 835 acquittal 845 administration see guardianship and administration admission of voluntary patients 842 advance care directives 857–8 advance statement of preferences 824–5 advocate helping with 822, 823 decision-makers taking account of 825 DoH form 825 reasonable steps to give effect 824 treatment not according with 827 advocacy see also disability advocacy legal 849 non-legal 822–3 opt-out register 823 services 791–802, 849 appeals to VCAT 835 appropriate supports 822 Assessment and Referral Court (ARC) List 15, 37, 791, 807–8 assessment order 827, 829–31 community court assessment order 813 conditions for making 830 court assessment order 813–14, 830 treatment on 830 assistance in court 805–9 authorised person, definition 837 authorised person’s powers 837–9 bodily restraint 839 chemical restraint 839 crisis response 837–8 entry to premises 838 search 838 seizure 839 taking person into care 837 transport to another service 839 transport to/from designated service 838 authorised psychiatrist 813, 840 assessment orders 830 restricting right to communicate 823 restrictive interventions 836 second psychiatric opinion 824 treatment decisions 825–8, 836 treatment orders 830–3 autonomy principle 820, 829 ‘best interests’ no longer factor in decisions consent to treatment 868 guardianship 851 medical decisions 856 bodily restraint 839 capacity 676, 826–7 Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities 835, 848–9 chemical restraint 839 Chief Psychiatrist 811, 839–40, 849, 850 communication, right of 823 community assessment order 830, 838 community court assessment order 813 community services 840 community temporary treatment order (CTTO) 831 community treatment order (CTO) 241, 832 duration 832 second psychiatric opinion 823–4 variation 832 complaints 839 compulsory patient 829–37 leave of absence 832 transport to designated mental health service 868 treatment without consent 827 compulsory treatment 784–5, 829–37 assessment order 827, 829–31 communication, right of 823 decision-making principles 828–9 electroconvulsive treatment 833–4 orders 828, 829 restrictive interventions 835–7 review of orders 835 revocation of orders, application for 834 supervised treatment order (STO) 784–5 temporary treatment order (TTO) 813, 814, 823, 829, 831, 845 treatment order (TO) 829, 832–5 variation of order 832 confidentiality of information 845–6 consent to treatment 826–9, 870 adequate information 827 capacity to give 826–7 electroconvulsive treatment 833, 870 information to be given 870 informed consent 826–7 neurosurgery 834 reasonable opportunity to make decision 827 treatment without 827–8, 836–7 consumer and community-managed services 840–1 consumer, definition 818 contacts 791–5 contracts 676 court assessment order (CAO) 813–14, 830 Court Integrated Services Program (CISP) 132, 152 court secure treatment order (CSTO) 813, 814, 830, 843 criteria for making 843 security patient 842 criminal charges 803 Criminal Justice Diversion Program 806 criminal justice system 803–17 crisis response 837–9 cultural safety principle 821