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2007

Cases Reported


AG v Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland 1
Issue: Whether a transcript of a Tribunal hearing should be made; the correct appeal procedure; whether the Tribunal should appear at an appeal.
 
Elizabeth Byrne v Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland 2
Issue: Whether a decision to deny an adjournment was lawful; whether the Tribunal had acted in excess of jurisdiction in extending a Compulsory Treatment Order
 
Sarah Beattie v Peter Dunbar, Mental Health Officer, and Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland 7
Issue: Whether an application to a Tribunal had been validly made in light of the incomplete nature of one of the medical recommendations
 
Annie McGlynn v Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland 16
Issue: Whether a Tribunal erred in failing to consider the making of an interim Compulsory Treatment Order in relation to a patient detained under a short term detention certificate
 
In the Petition of John Smith (Mental Health Officer) 17
Issue: Whether the Tribunal acted unlawfully in failing to hold a hearing within the statutory time limit
 
Brian Paterson v Sandra Kent, Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland and Fife Health Board 20
Issue: Whether a Tribunal had jurisdiction to consider an application when it sat outside the statutory time limit; whether a failure to make an interim Compulsory Treatment Order and adjourn to allow the patient to obtain legal representation and an independent medical report was lawful
 
Duncan Hughes (Curatory Ad Litem to PH) v Mental Health Tribunal 29
Issue: Whether the failure of the Tribunal to pay the expenses of a curator ad litem who was a solicitor, so that he could not attend a substantive hearing, breached Art 6 European Convention
 
R v Agnes Jane Carpenter 32
Issue: The appropriate tariff for a defendant convicted of murder who was the instigator of a contract killing, but suffered from a personality disorder arising from childhood abuse, and was depressed at the time, of impaired intelligence and had suffered a brain injury.
 
R v Gareth Richard Horton 35
Issue: The appropriate tariff for a defendant convicted of murder who suffered from a depressive disorder.
 
R v Rajesh Kumar Dass 37
Issue: The appropriate tariff for a defendant convicted of murder who had a psychotic disorder, a personality disorder and a brain injury.
 
JE v DE (by his litigation friend, the Official Solicitor), Surrey County Council and EW 39
Issue: Whether a patient in a care home had been deprived of his liberty for the purposes of Art 5 European Convention
 
R v H (AG’s Reference No 126 of 2006) 64
Issue: The appropriate tariff for a juvenile defendant convicted of murder who had an adjustment disorder.
 
R (Johnson and others) v LB Havering; YL (by her litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) v Birmingham City Council and others 69
Issue: Whether previous authority holding that a private care home is not a public authority for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998 was binding and correct.
 
YL (by her litigation friend, the Official Solicitor) v Birmingham City Council 85
Issue: Whether a private care home is a public authority for the purposes of the Human Rights Act 1998.
 
R (TB) v Stafford Crown Court 115
Issue: The procedure to be followed before a Crown Court orders the disclosure of the psychiatric records of a prosecution witness.
 
R (Buckowicki) v Northamptonshire County Council 121
Issue: Whether it was open to a local authority to decline to accept a client for guardianship when a criminal court wished to make a guardianship order
 
M v UK 129
Issue: Whether a friendly settlement should be approved; whether the absence of a provision allowing a patient to change her nearest relative breached Art 8 ECHR
 
Sheffield City Council v E and S 131
Issue: The test for capacity to marry.
 
X City Council v MB, NB and MAB 155
Issue: Whether capacity to marry includes capacity to engage in sexual relations; the test for capacity to engage in sexual relations.
 
St Helens BC v PE and JW 169
Issue: Whether declarations made under the inherent jurisdiction should affirm the lawfulness of conduct or merely that it was in the best interests of the subject.
 
Local Authority X v MM and KM 173
Issue: Whether MM had capacity to decide where to live, whether to marry or to have sexual relations; what her best interests required.
 
City of Sunderland v PS and CA 196
Issue: Whether deprivation of liberty could be authorised under the High Court’s inherent jurisdiction; whether a receiver could be appointed under s37 Supreme Court Act 1981 in relation to a vulnerable adult.
 
LLBC v TG, JG and TR 203
Issue: Whether an ex parte order for the placement in a care home of a man without capacity to decide where to live had been justified; whether it breached Arts 5 and 8 ECHR
 
R (N) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 219
Issue: Whether a tribunal had erred in concluding that a paedophile suffered from psychopathic disorder; whether a decision not to adjourn for oral evidence was unlawful.
 
R (Holloway) v Oxfordshire County Council and Others 225
Issue: Whether an ex parte interim displacement was properly sought; whether the order made was within the jurisdiction of the judge, and whether a s3 order made subsequently amounted to lawful detention.
 
R (SH) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 234
Issue: Whether the failure of a Tribunal to lift a requirement that a conditionally discharged patient accept medication that he was willing to accept on a voluntary basis breached his fundamental rights and so was unlawful.
 
R (RD) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 241
Issue: Whether a tribunal medical member had breached r11 Mental Health Review Tribunal Rules 1983 and/or Art 5(4) ECHR; the adequacy of the tribunal’s reasons.
 
R (Rayner and Marsh) v Home Secretary and Others 249
Issue: Whether the statutory scheme relating to the making of references to the Mental Health Review Tribunal following a recall to hospital of a conditionally discharged restricted patient and the timing of the hearing was compatible with Art 5(4) ECHR; whether there had been a breach of the right to a speedy hearing on the facts and who was responsible.
 
CPS v P 262
Issue: Whether a decision to stay a summary trial as the defendant could not participate was correct; whether the district judge should have proceeded under s37 Mental Health Act 1983; whether the defence of doli incapax remained.
 
R (Surat Singh) v Stratford Magistrates Court 274
Issue: The proper approach to issues of insanity arising in a summary trial
 
Seal v Chief Constable of South Wales Police 282
Issue: Whether a failure to obtain leave in accordance with s139 Mental Health Act 1983 before bringing civil proceedings in respect of acts purportedly done under the Act rendered the proceedings a nullity
 
Kerrie Francis Gray v Thames Trains Ltd and Network Rail 295
Issue: Whether a cause of action by a man suffering a mental disorder who committed a manslaughter was barred on public policy grounds.
 
R (MM) v Home Secretary 304
Issue: Whether warrants of recall in relation to a conditionally discharged patient were lawful
 
R v Dean Johnson 310
Issue: Whether in relation to insanity the issue was whether the defendant knew his action was legally or morally wrong
 
R v Amolak Singh Chal 313
Issue: Whether hearsay evidence was admissible in proceedings to determine whether an accused found unfit to stand trial had committed the actus reus of the offence charged.
 
R v Daniel Richard House 318
Issue: Whether a minimum term should have been specified in relation to a life sentence accompanied with a hospital direction
 
R v Jonathan Paul Simpson 320
Issue: Whether the judge had been correct to impose life imprisonment rather than a hospital order with a restriction order because of public safety concerns
 
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