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R (B) v (1) Dr SS (2) Dr AC (3) Secretary of State for the Health Department

Author / Contributor: Kris Gledhill
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R (B) v (1) Dr SS (2) Dr AC (3) Secretary of State for the Health Department
   
Issue: Whether a challenge to a decision to medicate a patient should proceed when the question had become academic; whether the statutory provisions allowing compulsory treatment of a capacitated detained patient violated Arts 3, 8 and 14 ECHR.
   
Court: Administrative Court
   
Reference:   CO/3489/2004
   
Neutral Citation:   [2005] EWHC 86 (Admin)
   
Judge(s): Silber J
   
Date: 31 January 2005