Melbourne Social Equity Institute, University of Melbourne, Carlton, Australia.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2020 Nov-Dec;73:101605. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2020.101605. Epub 2020 Jun 26.
The purpose of this paper is to explore the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the human rights of persons with mental and cognitive impairments subject to coercive powers in Australia. It sets out the relevant human rights in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which have been engaged by the COVID-19 pandemic and the government's response to it. It examines the effect of emergency legislation on the relaxation of human rights safeguards in mental health laws, with a focus on mental health tribunals (although it is limited by a lack of published decisions and gaps in publicly available information). However, some of the issues created for persons with disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic are evident in some decisions published by the New South Wales Guardianship Tribunal. The paper critically analyses two guardianship decisions UZX [2020] NSWCATGD 3 (3 April, 2020) and GZK [2020] NSWCATGD 5 (23 April, 2020) and some emergency South Australian legislation COVID-19 Emergency Response Act, 2020 (SA) Schedule 1 to demonstrate the ways in which the human rights of persons with mental and cognitive impairments can be more at risk than those of the general population, even when the general population is itself in "lockdown."
本文旨在探讨 COVID-19 大流行对澳大利亚受强制权力约束的精神和认知障碍者的人权的影响。本文阐述了《残疾人权利公约》中涉及 COVID-19 大流行和政府应对措施的相关人权，并考察了紧急立法对放宽精神卫生法中人权保障的影响，重点关注精神卫生法庭（尽管受到缺乏已公布的裁决和公开信息中的空白的限制）。然而，在 COVID-19 大流行期间为残疾人创造的一些问题在新南威尔士州监护法庭公布的一些裁决中显而易见。本文批判性地分析了两项监护裁决 UZX [2020] NSWCATGD 3（2020 年 4 月 3 日）和 GZK [2020] NSWCATGD 5（2020 年 4 月 23 日）以及一些南澳大利亚紧急立法 COVID-19 紧急反应法案，2020 年（SA）附表 1，以展示精神和认知障碍者的人权如何比一般人群更容易受到威胁，即使一般人群本身也处于“封锁”状态。
