Requesting a Review
Please indicate what issues/matters you would
like the Tribunal to consider at a review.
Patient’s name
Applicant’s name (if not the patient)
MENTAL
HEALTH
TRIBUNA L
Applicant’s relationship to patient
(if applicable)
Applicant’s address
ARE YOU AN
INVOLUNTARY
PATIENT?
Ph
• Detained in hospital?
• On a community treatment order?
Name and address of any representative
Please ensure that you have completed all the
information requested and then post (no stamp
is required), email or fax to the Mental Health
Tribunal:
Ph
Does the patient identify as Aboriginal or
Torres Strait Islander
Yes / No
Interpreter required
Yes / No
Language
Mental Health Tribunal
PO Box 1623
Reply Paid 84358
WEST PERTH WA 6872
A brief guide to the
Mental Health Tribunal (MHT)
Fax: 9226 2668
[email protected]
How to request a review
A guide to the Mental Health Tribunal
What is a review?
The Mental Health Tribunal reviews involuntary
treatment orders and decides whether or not they
should continue in force.
The first review for a patient younger than 18 is
held within 10 days after the order was made, and
further reviews are held every 28 days for as long
as the order remains in force.
Orders for patients who are 18 or older are
reviewed within 35 days of the order being made
and reviewed again every three months for as long
as the order remains in place.
The review is made by three members of the
Tribunal (a lawyer, a psychiatrist and a community
member) who consider all the evidence and after
hearing from the treating team and the patient,
decide whether the patient should continue to be
an involuntary patient.
Patients are invited to attend with their
representative (if they have one), and other
support people such as family or friends. The
patient's psychiatrist or other members of the
treating team may also be present.
Every involuntary patient or any other person who
has concern for the patient can request a review at
any time.
What decisions can the Tribunal
make?
Under the Act, the Tribunal can make a number of
decisions including to:
• continue the involuntary order
• discontinue the involuntary order
• order that a Community Treatment Order be
made
• vary the terms of a Community Treatment
Order.
Where will the review be held?
How do I contact the MHT?
If the patient is outside of the metropolitan area,
the review will be done by video link between the
Tribunal's offices in Perth and the nearest mental
health service the patient can attend.
Phone (08) 6145 3900
Fax
(08) 9226 2668
Email [email protected]
PO BOX 1623, WEST PERTH WA 6872
www.mht.wa.gov.au
What happens at the review?
Useful Contacts
The review will be held at the patient's hospital or
mental health clinic.
Every review is held in private and is as informal
as possible. lt is an opportunity for the patient
to discuss whether the involuntary order should
continue.
The Tribunal encourages the patient and any
support persons such as family or friends to attend
the review.
Free advice and representation is available from
the Mental Health advocacy service, and free legal
advice and representation is available from the
Mental Health Law Centre. The patient and their
representative can ask questions and provide
evidence and information to the Tribunal. The
treating doctor or a member of the treating team
will also be present to give information.
Mental Health Tribunal
Mental Health Law Centre
Phone
(08) 9328 8266
Freecall
1800 620 285
Fax
(08) 9328 8577
www.mhlcwa.org.au
Mental Health Advocacy Service
Freecall
Email 1800 999 057
[email protected]
Health and Disability Service Complaints
Office (HaDSCO)
Phone
(08) 6551 7000
www.hadsco.health.wa.gov.au
A tape recording will be made of the review. This
is as required by the Act.
State Administrative Tribunal
At the end of the review the Tribunal will announce
its decision and the patient will be given a
document setting out the decision.
Phone (08) 9219 3111
Fax
(08) 9325 5099
www.sat.justice.wa.gov.au
What happens after the review?
The patient can ask the Tribunal to provide written
reasons for its decision, by request in writing
made within 28 days of the decision. If the patient
does not agree with the Tribunal's decision, they
can appeal to the State Administrative Tribunal.