Camilla Parker
Position: Research Student
School: Law
Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74982
Email: parkerch@cardiff.ac.uk
Introduction
Camilla studied law at the University of Nottingham, and gained an LLM (with Distinction) in Human Rights and Civil Liberties at the University of Leicester. She is currently undertaking her doctoral research (part time) at Cardiff University Law School on the potential role of human rights in the development of a legal framework for young people's mental health care.
For the last 13 years Camilla has worked as an independent consultant, advising on legal and policy development and providing legal research and training in the areas of health social care, human rights and disability.
Camilla has an in-depth knowledge of mental health law and policy. She is a member of the Law Society's Mental Health and Disability Committee. She was a member of an NHS Trust Board (2000-2006) and a Mental Health Act Commissioner (1995-2000). Prior to establishing her consultancy, she was Legal and Parliamentary Officer for Mind (National Association for Mental Health). She previously worked as a solicitor in private practice.
Camilla has written and presented nationally and internationally on a wide range of legal and policy issues relevant to disability, mental health care and human rights for specialist and non-specialist audiences. She is the main author of The Legal Aspects of the Care and Treatment of Children and Young People with Mental Disorder: A Guide for Professionals (Department of Health/National Institute for Mental Health in England, January 2009).
Camilla is a trustee of LUNA - a charity set up to work with children and young people affected by conflict and/or trauma, currently working in East Africa.
Camilla's publications include:
Wasted time, wasted money, wasted lives - A wasted opportunity? A Focus Report on how the current use of Structural Funds perpetrates the social exclusion of disabled people in Central and Eastern Europe by failing to support the transition from institutional care to community based services, European Coalition for Community Living, March 2010 (main author)
The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a New Right to Independent Living?, European Human Rights Law Review, Issue 4 2008, 508 (with Luke Clements)
Children and Young People and the Mental Health Act 2007, Journal of Mental Health Law, November 2007, 174
Developing mental health policy: a human rights perspective in Mental Health Policy and Practice Across Europe, (2007) editors Martin Knapp et al, McGraw Hill, Open University Press
