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2 What is the Tribunal?
The Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland is an independent organisation set up by the new Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003. Its role is to make decisions about your care and treatment if you are subject to compulsory powers under the Act.
The Tribunal consists of the President and around 300 members. There are three groups of members - legal, medical, and general. Each hearing will have a panel of three members which includes one person from each group. The legal members will chair the hearing. Medical members are psychiatrists. General members are people with a special interest in mental health including psychiatric nurses, social workers, psychologists, service users and carers. None of the panel should have had any previous connection with the patient/service user.
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