This is the first study on the service user perspective of the conditional discharge (CD) regime under section 42B of the Mental Health Ordinance, which is Hong Kong's form of mandatory outpatient treatment (like the community treatment order (CTO) in the UK).
"Claiming Wrongful Diagnosis under the Mental Health Ordinance: The Impossibility of Building a Reasonably Arguable Case"
In Hong Kong Law Journal – 2020
By Urania Chiu (doctoral candidate) and Assistant Prof Daisy Cheung
In International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, January–February 2020
Assistant Prof Daisy Cheung is one of the co-authors
Building on the work of CMEL’s 2017 mental health conference (please see item 15 below), the article explores the various pathways for law reform in the area of compulsory mental health treatment in Hong Kong. -
Assistant Prof Daisy Cheungshared in an interview with South China Morning Posther view on the existing statutory definition of mental incapacity in Hong Kong. -
The Centre for Medical Ethics and Law (CMEL) hosted a conference in 2017 on compulsory mental health treatment in Hong Kong and the way forward. The conference featured philosophical, human rights, legal and medical perspectives. The speakers included a judge from the United Kingdom, medical practitioners and academics from the UK, New Zealand, the United States, and Hong Kong. The conference was organised by Assistant Prof Daisy Cheung, who agreed to be interviewed by HKU Legal Scholarship Blog.