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Abstract
The Mental Health Act 1983, with its greater emphasis upon legal tests and criteria, mirrored developments in the USA. Now, however, distinctively different co-operative and interdisciplinary developments are taking place in the USA. Will the UK again follow the US lead? This article highlights some of the developments and, as examples of the potential of the new approaches, considers a number of topics within the broad framework of mental health law. The article concludes that the question is whether practitioners in the UK are prepared to adopt the different ways of working that are involved with the new approaches