Mental Health and Disability Sub-Committee
Convener
Lynda Towers
Secretary
Observers
Fiona Brown
May Dunsmuir
Julie Paterson
Solicitor Members
Matthew Clarke
Carrie-Anne Clifford
Claire Currie
Deirdre Hanlon
Lisa Law
David McClements
Helen McGinty
Yvonne McKenna
Dianne Millen, BTO Solicitors
Catherine Mullen
Shirley Rhynd
Jill Stavert, Lead, Centre for Mental Health Practice, Policy and Law Research at Edinburgh Napier University
Adrian D Ward MBE,LLB
Non-solicitor Members
Sandra McDonald
Professor Colin McKay
Dr Pradeep Pasupuleti
Alex Ruck Keene QC
Aims & functions of the committee
Our Mental Health and Disability Sub-Committee is made up of solicitor and non-solicitor members with experience across mental health, capacity and adult support and protection law. Since its inception in 1989 the committee has been a major national player in relevant law reform and related developments, with an emphasis on the perspective of legal practitioners, and we are currently engaging with proposals for reform following the final report of the Scottish Mental Health Law Review (September 2022). We were one of the founding committees of the working group which produced the Advance choices, and medical decision-making in intensive care situations paper in 2022.
Mental health and disability law
Find out more about our work on Mental Health and Disability Law