Natalie Plumstead Legal Consulting are trusted legal advisers on mental health law matters. We are committed to providing professional and empathetic legal services that support you to understand how metal health law applies to your circumstances. We understand that you need to be fully informed of the legal options available to you.
We are trusted legal drafters on mental health law matters. We are committed to supporting you with effective and easy to use documents required by you, your carers and supporters. We understand that you may need a range of documents to navigate the mental health system.
We are trusted advocates for consumers, carers and supporters on mental health law matters. We use our extensive expertise to support you and advocate for you to navigate the mental health system.
We understand that you may need at times to apply to substantially reduce or remove the restrictions that apply to you over the course of your recovery. We offer our legal services to assist you to understand the options and advocate for you at the Mental Health Tribunal to revoke or vary your orders.
Patient rights and complaints
We help to advise on your rights while you are receiving a mental health and wellbeing service. We can provide legal advice and support you to make a complaint about mental health and wellbeing services.
Treatment
We provide legal advice on the provision of treatment to you with or without your consent to assist you to understand the options available to you.
How we support you
Advance statement of preferences
We provide legal advice and drafting services to assist you to make an advance statement of preferences.
Nominated support persons
We provide legal advice and drafting services to support you to nominate another person as your nominated support person or to revoke an existing nomination.
Clarity in legal drafting
We provide clear and plain English legal drafting services to our clients. We use language that is effective, to make the purpose and intent clear to readers. We understand that these documents are important to ensure your views and preferences are part of decision making about any treatment you may receive.
Advocating to vary or revoke orders
We advocate for you to make submissions to the Mental Health Tribunal to substantially reduce or remove the restrictions that may apply to you under an order. We offer our professional and empathetic approach to draft submissions that ensure your views and preferences are heard and taken into consideration by the Mental Health Tribunal.
Appealing a decision
There may be circumstances where you wish to appeal a decision made by the Mental Health Tribunal. We provide advice and advocate for you to make an application to VCAT for review of the decision made by the Mental Health Tribunal.
We provide advice to you where there may be a referral of a question of law from your Mental Health Tribunal proceeding to the Supreme Court.
