Forensic psychiatry & mental health law

Psychiatry & Law Radar

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"THERE'S MORE TO RECOVERY THAN JUST WEIGHT GAIN": ETHICAL CHALLENGES FOR JUSTICE AND RESPECT IN ADJUDICATION OF CAPACITY FOR PATIENTS WITH ANOREXIA NERVOSA.

— STAFF

It gives a forensic reader empirical texture on how capacity findings in anorexia are actually reasoned and contested in a real tribunal, and flags stigma and credibility discounting as recurrent features of the record — useful when preparing or critiquing capacity evidence in eating-disorder cases. It does not alter the Health Care Consent Act standard, impose any obligation on clinicians, or supply reliability data that would force an evaluator to qualify a capacity opinion, so its weight is persuasive and jurisdictionally narrow rather than practice-changing.

Int J Law Psychiatry. 2026;108:102232.