2009
'The context for the use of Community Treatment Orders in NZ', meeting of the Macarthur Foundation Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment, Bellagio, Italy, October 2009
'Compulsory outpatient treatment and the calculus of human rights', symposium on Rethinking Rights-Based Mental Health Laws, organised by the Monash University law faculty, Prato, Italy, May 2009
2008
'Randomized controlled trials of compulsory psychiatric treatment', Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, UK, November 2008
'Use of community treatment orders in NZ and Australia', meeting of clinical leaders of mental health services, Oxfordshire, UK, November 2008
'The challenges of conducting a randomized controlled trial of compulsory outpatient care', Academic Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK, November 2008
'Community treatment orders', King's College Law School, London, October, 2008
2007
'Concepts of liberty in mental health law', Inaugural Professorial Lecture, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, September 2007
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'Human rights and mental health law in NZ', International Academy of Law and Mental Health conference, Padua, Italy, July 2007
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'The Otago Community Treatment Order study: what have we learned?', International Academy of Law and Mental Health conference, Padua, Italy, July 2007
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2006
'The fusion of mental health and adult guardianship legislation', conference of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Lorne, Victoria, November 2006
'What determines the rate of use of community treatment orders?', Institute of Psychiatry, London, February 2006
'Why distinguish 'mental' and 'physical' illness in the law of involuntary treatment?', Law, Mind and Brain conference, University College, London, February 2006
2005
'Community treatment orders in Victoria', invited address to a conference of the members of the Mental Health Review Board of Victoria, December 2005
'Community treatment orders in Victoria', invited address to a conference of the clinical staff of the mental health services of Victoria, Melbourne, November 2005
'Concepts of liberty in compulsory community care', keynote address, conference of the Australian and NZ Association
of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, Wellington, November 2005
'Community treatment orders: international comparisons', keynote address, conference of the NZ branch of the RANZ College of Psychiatrists, Dunedin, October, 2005
'Legal and ethical issues in research with involuntary psychiatric patients', conference of the NZ branch of the RANZ College of Psychiatrists, Dunedin, October, 2005
'The use of community treatment orders in Australasia', and 'Community treatment orders: international comparisons', invited workshops for the meeting of the Macarthur Network on Mandated Community Treatment, Washington DC, June 2005
2004
'Revocation of compulsory outpatient status', International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2004
'The use of community treatment orders in Australasia', Invited seminar, Psychology Department, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, May 2004