1. ANSELM ELDERGILL
Positions currently held
Judge, Court of Protection, London (mental health and capacity court)
Honorary Professor in Mental Capacity Law, University College London
Honorary Professor of Mental Health Law, Northumbria University
Previous experience, honours and qualifications
Head of Mental Health Law, Eversheds (one of the largest law firms in the world, with 40 offices across the
UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia)
Ranked 1 in the Mental Health and Healthcare 'Leaders in their Field' section of Chambers & Partners
Directory of the Legal Profession (UK)
Entry in three volumes of Who's Who in America (USA)
Entry in the Cambridge Blue Book of Outstanding Achievement
Entry in the Dictionary of International Biography
Alexander Maxwell Law Scholar
President, Mental Health Lawyers Association
President, Institute of Mental Health Act Practitioners
Honorary Legal Adviser to the African Regional Council for Mental Health
Assistant Coroner
Tribunal Judge, social security benefits (Disability Living Allowance and Incapacity Benefit)
Legal Commissioner and Chairman of the Mental Health Act Commission’s Law & Ethics Committee
The Legal Member, Mental Health Commission for Northern Ireland Legal adviser to Mental Health
Commission in Dublin in relation to reform of appeals processes
Legal Chairman of ten mental health related Government Inquiries into serious service failures
Member of and Assessor for the Law Society's Mental Health Panel (Solicitors’ professional body)
Chairman, London National Health Service Clinical Ethics Committee
1400-page textbook on Mental Health Law (reprinted twice)
Extensive publications and conferences record, at home and abroad, for publications such as The Princeton
University Law Journal, Johns Hopkins University, The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry and The Guardian
Member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Mental Health Law and Medicine, Science & the Law
Lecturer at numerous national and international conferences
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