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LAWYERS' PERSPECTIVES ON THE INCREASED USE OF INVOLUNTARY PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT UNDER THE MENTAL HEALTH ACT 2016, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA.
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This is qualitative opinion evidence from legal participants in one Australian tribunal system: it usefully documents why a rights-based statute did not reduce coercion, which is relevant to anyone arguing that legislative reform alone will lower commitment rates, but it changes no obligation and no assertion an evaluator makes. Read it as context for the recurring finding that coercion is driven by service capacity rather than legal standards, not as a development in law or practice.