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2013

Cases Reported


Kallweit v Germany 1
Issue: Whether a statutory extension of the maximum period of preventive detention breached Arts 5 and/or 7 ECHR; the impact of Art 46.
 
Haidn v Germany 13
Issue: Whether the retrospective imposition of preventive detention at the end of a prison sentence breached Arts 3 and/or 5 ECHR.
 
OH v Germany 29
Issue: Whether the extension of preventive detention breached Arts 5 and/or 7 ECHR; just satisfaction.
 
R v Ashley Searles 47
Issue: Whether a hospital order should be imposed in place of a custodial sentence that was about to expire; whether a restriction order was needed.
 
R v Alan Fletcher 50
Issue: Whether a hospital order should be imposed in place of a custodial sentence that was about to expire; whether a restriction order was needed.
 
AC v Partnerships in Care Ltd and Secretary of State for Justice 52
Issue: Whether a Tribunal had misconstrued s74 Mental Health Act 1983 in declining to recommend release; whether its reasons for preferring one expert over another were adequate.
 
MA v Secretary of State for Health and Others 56
Issue: Whether s66 Mental Health Act 1983 should be construed so as to allow the nearest relative of a s2 patient to apply to a Tribunal if a barring order is made in relation to a discharge; the role of Arts 5, 6, 8 and 12 ECHR.
 
R v Shane William Jenkin 61
Issue: Whether a sentence of life imprisonment together with a hospital direction under s45A Mental Health Act 1983 should be replaced by a hospital order with a restriction order under ss37/41 of the 1983 Act.
 
R v Imtiaz Ahmed 65
Issue: Whether hospital and restriction orders under ss37/41 Mental Health Act 1983 should be substituted for a sentence of imprisonment for public protection; the relevance of the patient’s immigration status.
 
Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis v ZH (by GH, his litigation friend) 69
Issue: Whether the touching and restraint of a young man with autism and other difficulties was in his best interests and so justified; whether the police had breached the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 by not modifying their normal approach in light of his disabilities; whether there were breaches of Arts 3, 5 and/or 8 ECHR.
 
DD v Durham County Council and Middlesbrough City Council 85
Issue: Whether leave to bring proceedings should be given under s139 Mental Health Act 1983; costs.
 
Đorđević v Croatia 89
Issue: Whether the failure to prevent harassment by local children of a man with disabilities and his mother breached Arts 2, 3, 8 and/or 14 ECHR; whether domestic remedies had been exhausted; whether there was a breach of Art 13.
 
Kędzior v Poland 115
Issue: Whether placement in a care home breached Arts 5(1) and (4) ECHR; whether rejecting applications to restore capacity on procedural grounds breach Art 6.
 
Bureš v Czech Republic 126
Issue: Whether treatment in a sobering-up centre, including tying a patient to a security bed, breached Art 3 ECHR.
 
“G” v DPP 143
Issue: Whether a youth court finding of guilt was improper in light of evidence of the defendant’s limited capacity to participate.
 
JP v South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust 148
Issue: Whether a Tribunal decision upholding detention was adequately reasoned; whether there were breaches of Arts 6 and/or 9 ECHR.
 
Secretary of State for Justice v MP and Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 154
Issue: Whether a Tribunal decision to grant a conditional discharge without any conditions involved an error of law, including as to the adequacy of reasons; the correct remedy in light of the further detention of the patient.
 
MS v North East London Foundation Trust 158
Issue: Whether a Tribunal had erroneously applied the criteria of s2 Mental Health Act 1983 to a s3 patient; whether it erroneously failed to make a recommendation; the adequacy of its reasons.
 
MM v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 161
Issue: Whether a Tribunal panel should have recused itself after hearing that a psychiatric report commissioned for the patient would not be presented and the hospital sought to argue that this supported their case.
 
MD v Mersey Care NHS Trust 164
Issue: Whether a Tribunal had improperly given priority to questions of risk and allowed containment without appropriate treatment; the relationship between risk and the criteria for detention.
 
RC v NHS Islington and Others 167
Issue: Whether a refusal to adjourn other than to a fixed date was an error of law as an unlawful policy and/or improper on the facts.
 
R v Scott Coley; R v Colin McGhee, R v Darren Harris 171
Issue: Whether convictions were proper in light of the law relating to insanity and/or automatism.
 
R v Lee Robert Foye 182
Issue: Whether an order restraining flying following a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity in relation to an offence on an airline was lawful and/or justified on the facts.
 
Coombs v Dorset NHS Primary Care Trust and Nottingham Healthcare NHS Trust 194
Issue: Whether a patient detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 could pay for treatment.
 
R v Mark Smith 201
Issue: Whether an order restraining flying following a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity in relation to an offence on an airline was lawful and/or justified on the facts.
 
R v SPC 206
Issue: Whether conduct caused by schizophrenia was harassment contrary to the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.
 
R v AJR 209
Issue: Whether a restraining order preventing contact with family members following a finding of not guilty by reason of insanity in relation to a serious assault on a daughter was lawful and/or justified on the facts.
 
TW v LB Enfield and Secretary of State for Health 214
Issue: Whether leave should be granted to allow an action for damages for wrongful detention and psychiatric injury to proceed against a local authority whose social worker made an application for detention under the Mental Health Act 1983; whether the requirement for leave breached Arts 6 and 14 ECHR.
 
Shulepova v Russia 221
Issue: Whether detention in a psychiatric hospital was in breach of domestic law and so of Art 5(1) ECHR; whether the dismissal of court proceedings was in breach of Art 6 ECHR in light of the use of expert evidence from doctors employed by the detaining hospital.
 
Ťupa v Czech Republic 230
Issue: Whether detention in a psychiatric hospital was based on inadequate procedures and so breached Art 5(1) ECHR; the relationship between domestic courts and the ECtHR; the level of scrutiny required.
 
LM v Latvia 238
Issue: Whether detention in a psychiatric hospital had been in breach of Art 5.1(e) ECHR
 
Beiere v Latvia 247
Issue: Whether detention for a psychiatric assessment pursuant to a court order was in breach of Art 5.1(b) ECHR; the admissibility of complaints in light of domestic proceedings.
 
M v Ukraine 255
Issue: Whether detention breached Art 5.1 ECHR; the adequacy of domestic procedures; whether there had been consent to detention.
 
Salontaji-Drobnjak v Serbia 271
Issue: Whether proceedings to remove capacity in part and the difficulties in seeking to have it restored breached Art 6 ECHR; whether the partial removal of capacity breached Art 8.
 
Sýkora v Czech Republic 283
Issue: Whether Art 8 ECHR was breached by the removal of capacity; whether detention in a psychiatric hospital under the consent of a guardian breached Arts 5.1 and 5.4.
 
R (L) v West London Mental Health NHS Trust 297
Issue: The fair process to be followed before a patient is transferred from a medium secure hospital to a high secure setting; whether Art 6 ECHR applied.
 
RM v The Scottish Ministers 412
Issue: Whether the Scottish Ministers had acted unlawfully in failing to make regulations to define the types of patients and hospitals that were relevant for the power of the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland to make a finding that the patient was held in conditions of excessive security.
 
R v Ligaya Nursing 421
Issue: Whether the offence of wilful neglect contrary to s44 Mental Capacity Act 2005 was adequately certain; how it applied in the case of a person who had capacity in some areas; the impact of decisions to take steps or omit to take steps in a belief that autonomy was thereby being promoted.
 
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