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2005

Cases Reported


Peter Kiernan v Harrow Crown Court 1
Issue: Whether a judge had sufficient evidence to impose a hospital order.
 
R (AL) v (1) Home Secretary (2) Secretary of State for Health (Administrative Court) 7
Issue: Whether the recall to hospital and continuing detention of a conditionally discharged patient was lawful when he was suffering from a mental disorder for which he had not initially been detained.
 
R (AL) v (1) Home Secretary (2) Secretary of State for Health (Court of Appeal) 12
Issue: Whether the recall to hospital and continuing detention of a conditionally discharged patient was lawful when he was suffering from a mental disorder for which he had not initially been detained
 
R (D) v (1) Home Secretary (2) National Assembly for Wales 17
Issue: Whether a duty arose to secure the transfer to hospital of a prisoner; whether the duty was breached; whether delays in transfer had breached the prisoner’s Art 8 rights.
 
R v Acharya 28
Issue: Whether a restriction order was justified
 
R (SC) v (1) Mental Health Review Tribunal (2) Secretary of State for Health (3) Home Secretary 31
Issue: Whether s75(3) Mental Health Act 1983 is incompatible with the ECHR; the matters to be taken into account by a Tribunal when considering an application by a conditionally discharged restricted patient; whether a Tribunal had acted unlawfully by taking into account a mental disorder from which the patient was not classified as suffering.
 
R (B) v Ashworth Hospital Authority 47
Issue: Whether a patient detained under the classification of mental illness could be treated on a ward for those suffering from personality disorder.
 
R (DJ) v Mental Health Review Tribunal; R (AN) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 56
Issue: The standard of proof and approach to be applied by a Tribunal
 
R (E) v Bristol City Council 83
Issue: Whether an approved social worker was required to inform or consult a nearest relative under s11 Mental Health Act 1983 where it was contrary to the patient’s best interests and express wishes.
 
R v McMilan 90
Issue: Whether a minimum term should have been specified for an offender sentenced to life imprisonment and made subject to a hospital limitation direction under s45A Mental Health Act 1983.
 
Jones v Isleworth Crown Court 93
Issue: Whether a restriction order was lawful
 
R (B) v (1) Dr SS (2) Dr AC (3) Secretary of State for the Health Department 96
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.
 
Ward v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis 128
Issue: Whether a magistrate is entitled to impose a condition that only named professionals are involved in the execution of a warrant issued under s135 Mental Health Act 1983
 
R (W) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 134
Issue: Whether a Tribunal should have exercised its discretion to discharge on an application by the patient where the nearest relative’s order for discharge had been barred; whether the Tribunal’s reasons were adequate.
 
Seal v Chief Constable of South Wales Police 137
Issue: Whether a failure to obtain leave in accordance with s139 Mental Health Act 1983 before bringing proceedings in respect of acts purportedly done under the Act rendered the subsequent proceedings a nullity
 
R (A) v (1) Secretary of State (2) Mental Health Review Tribunal 144
Issue: Whether the second hearing in an application to the Mental Health Review Tribunal before a differently constituted tribunal panel was fair.
 
Brand v Netherlands 148
Issue: Whether detention in prison pending a place being found in a secure psychiatric institution breached Art 5 of the European Convention.
 
Morsink v Netherlands 161
Issue: Whether detention in prison pending a place being found in a secure psychiatric institution breached Art 5 of the European Convention.
 
Morley v UK 174
Issue: Whether the transfer of a prisoner from hospital back to prison violated Art 5 of the European Convention
 
R (Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust) v Mental Health Review Tribunal (Defendant) and (1) R (2) P (Interested Parties) 183
Issue: Whether a tribunal decision to discharge a patient detained under s37 Mental Health Act 1983 because it was not satisfied that the dangerousness criteria in s72(1)(b)(iii) of the 1983 Act were met was lawful.
 
R (O) v West London Mental Health NHS Trust 188
Issue: Whether a failure by hospital managers to give sufficient reasons for their decision rendered that decision unlawful.
 
Narey v HM Customs and Excise 194
Issue: Whether there was sufficient evidence for the imposition of a restriction order where a defendant was unfit to plead; the requirements for making such an order.
 
R (Home Secretary) v (1) Mental Health Review Tribunal (Defendant) (2) CH (Interested Party) 199
Issue: Whether a Mental Health Review Tribunal’s reasons for its decision to direct the conditional discharge of a patient were sufficient.
 
R v Doonan 210
Issue: Whether a sentence of imprisonment should be substituted by a hospital order under s37 Mental Health Act 1983
 
Storck v Germany 211
Issue: Whether detention and forced medical treatment which had not been sanctioned by the domestic courts violated Arts 3, 5, and 8 of the Convention; whether the State was responsible for detention at a private clinic; whether proceedings before national courts in respect of that detention had violated Arts 6 and 8 of the Convention; compensation.
 
Kolanis v UK 238
Issue: Whether Art 5 European Convention was breached by delay in the consideration of a patient’s case by a Mental Health Review Tribunal after a deferred conditional discharge
 
IH v UK 252
Issue: Whether the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 relating to the deferred conditional discharge of restricted patients are compatible with Art 5 European Convention
 
R (B) v (1) Camden LBC (2) Camden & Islington Health and Social Care Trust 258
Issue: Whether public authorities responsible for the provision of s117 after-care to a conditionally discharged patient had breached their duty by delay; whether they were liable under s47 National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990; whether the patient’s rights under Arts 5 and 8 ECHR had been infringed; damages.
 
R (Munjaz) v Mersey Care NHS Trust 276
Issue: Whether a hospital policy on seclusion that departed from the Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 was lawful; the status of the Code of Practice.
 
R (MH) v Secretary of State for Health 302
Issue: The requirements of Art 5 European Convention in relation to patients without capacity detained under s2 Mental Health Act 1983 and patients detained under s2 pending an application to displace their nearest relative in the county court.
 
Lewis v Gibson (MH as Interested Party) 309
Issue: Whether a displacement order under s29 Mental Health Act 1983 was correct.
 
R (B) v (1) Dr Haddock (2) Dr Rigby (3) Dr Wood 317
Issue: Whether treatment with anti-psychotic medication violated a detained patient’s rights under Arts 3 and 8 of the Convention.
 
R (Taylor) v (1) Dr Haydn-Smith (2) Dr Gallimore 327
Issue: Whether the treatment without consent of a detained patient was lawful.
 
R v IA 336
Issue: Whether a sentence of custody for life was appropriate where the offender suffered from a mental disorder
 
R (B) v (1) Dr SS (2) Dr G (3) Secretary of State for the Health Department 347
Issue: Whether medical treatment could lawfully be given to a detained patient without his consent.
 
R (SR) v Huntercombe Maidenhead Hospital and Others 379
Issue: Whether managers considering whether to uphold a decision to bar a nearest relative’s discharge had considered their residual discretion not to discharge even if the criteria for a barring order were not made out; whether the conclusion that the barring order criteria were not made out was rational.
 
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