Lawsuits for the right to mental health; search to support

Mental health includes the absence of mental disorders on the one hand and productive life in the social environment on the other hand, and it is one of the important aspects of health in its general meaning. The right to mental health is realized with the cooperation of governments, and its intervention to privilege the resources and facilities that pave the way to achieve this right. The inefficiency of the legislative and executive powers in creating resources and facilities and removing the existing obstacles puts the duty of suing for violated rights of people - especially mental patients - on the board of the judicial system. The question of this research is how the judicial system supports the right to the mental health of people, which is based on examining the situation of mental patients in enjoying equal freedom with others, treatment, and promotion by searching the judgments of the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of the United States It is done by the United States and the British Mental Health tribunal. The entry of the European Court and the Supreme Court into the cases of this field is due to general jurisdiction and in line with the realization of the right to a fair trial. These two courts have done solve mental patients’ problems properly. In contrast, the British Mental Health Tribunal, which is the birth of this country's mental health law, as an independent institution, takes steps to protect the right to mental health and provides new solutions for mental patients.