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RM v The Scottish Ministers

Author / Contributor: Kris Gledhill
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RM v The Scottish Ministers
   
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.
   
Court: Supreme Court
   
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Neutral Citation:   [2012] UKSC 58
   
Judge(s): Lord Hope (Deputy President), Lady Hale, Lord Wilson, Lord Reed, Lord Carnwath
   
Date: 28 November 2012