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2003

Cases Reported


R (KB, MK, JR, GM, LB, PD and TB) v Mental Health Review Tribunal and Secretary of State for Health 1
Issue: Whether delays in Mental Health Review Tribunals breached Art 5(4) European Convention
 
R (B) v Mental Health Review Tribunal and Home Secretary 19
Issue: Whether a delay in a Mental Health Review Tribunal hearing breached Art 5(4) European Convention; whether a decision to adjourn was in breach of natural justice.
 
R (KB, MK, JR, GM, LB, PD, TB and B) v Mental Health Review Tribunal and Secretary of State for Health 28
Issue: Whether breaches of Art 5(4) required financial compensation and, if so, the appropriate quantum.
 
R (RA) v Home Secretary 54
Issue: The duties of the Home Secretary to consider the granting of leave to a restricted patient granted a deferred conditional discharge.
 
R (S) v Airedale NHS Trust 63
Issue: The lawfulness of the seclusion of patients in non-secure hospitals.
 
R (M) v 1. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, 2. Home Secretary, 3. Governor HMP Full Sutton 88
Issue: Whether a decision to return a transferred prisoner to prison was fair and/or reasonable.
 
R (M) v Nottinghamshire Health Care NHS Trust, 2. Home Secretary, 3. Governor HMP Full Sutton 101
Issue: Whether a decision to return a transferred prisoner to prison was fair and/or reasonable.
 
Cook v Bradford Community Health NHS Trust 111
Issue: Whether a hospital was negligent in failing to protect a care assistant from a patient who was in seclusion.
 
R (S) v Home Secretary and Parole Board 114
Issue: Whether a decision to recall a prisoner who had been released on licence but who was detained under s3 Mental Health Act 1983 was lawful.
 
R (S) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 118
Issue: Whether the role of the Medical Member of the Tribunal breaches Art 5(4) European Convention.
 
Benjamin and Wilson v UK 124
Issue: Whether the arrangements for the release of life sentence prisoners transferred to psychiatric hospital breached Art 5(4) European Convention.
 
Nowicka v Poland 130
Issue: Whether the detention of the applicant to secure a psychiatric examination was in breach of Art 5.1 European Convention; whether restrictions on family visits breached Art 8.
 
R (N) v Dr M, A Health Authority and Dr O (Administrative Court) 138
Issue: Whether a patient detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 should be medicated against her wishes; the process to be followed by the court.
 
R (N) v Dr M, A Health Authority and Dr O (Court of Appeal) 157
Issue: Whether a patient detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 should be medicated against her wishes; the process to be followed by the court.
 
Martin Masterman-Lister v (1) Brutton & Co and (2) Jewell & Home Counties Dairies 166
Issue: Whether the claimant was a patient within the Mental Health Act in relation to his capacity to manage his affairs.
 
R v Kearney 183
Issue: Whether a restriction order was appropriate on the facts.
 
Ole Wall v Sweden 186
Issue: Whether the detention of an alcoholic for compulsory care was in breach of Art 5 European Convention
 
R (D) v Home Secretary 193
Issue: Whether the statutory scheme relating to the release of discretionary life prisoners who had been transferred to hospital was incompatible with Art 5 European Convention.
 
R (Home Secretary) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 202
Issue: The lawfulness of a discharge from hospital on condition that a patient not leave a hostel without an escort.
 
R v H 209
Issue: Whether the procedure for determining whether a defendant found not fit to stand trial committed the actus reus of the offence was compatible with Art 6 European Convention.
 
Paul Phillips v UK 215
Issue: Whether to endorse a friendly settlement for delay in implementing a Tribunal decision to conditionally discharge a restricted patient.
 
R (B) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 218
Issue: Whether the Tribunal could defer the discharge of a patient whose discharge had been ordered following a barred nearest relative application.
 
R v Geoffrey Lane 220
Issue: Whether a hospital order should be imposed in light of fresh evidence as to the mental state of the offender at the time of sentencing
 
R (K) v Dr H, South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, and the Second Opinion Appointed Doctor 223
Issue: Whether proceedings should be allowed to continue which raised the lawfulness of ECT when the plan to administer it had been lifted on the facts
 
Reid v UK 226
Issue: Whether the continued detention of a patient suffering from psychopathic disorder on the grounds of public safety, whereas initial detention required that the disorder be treatable, was a breach of Art 5 European Convention; whether the proceedings were conducted speedily.
 
R (T) v Home Secretary 239
Issue: Whether it was proper to impose a restriction direction under s49 Mental Health Act 1983 on a prisoner transferred from prison to hospital under s47 of the Act
 
Barbara Francis v UK 245
Issue: Whether the procedural obligations of Art 2 were breached in the circumstances; whether a decision to hold a disciplinary hearing into a psychiatrist in private breached the Art 6 rights of the complainant.
 
R (B) v Ashworth Hospital Authority 250
Issue: Whether a patient detained under the classification of mental illness could be treated on a ward for those suffering from personality disorder.
 
R (S) v Home Secretary 264
Issue: Whether a recalled prisoner who was detained under s3 Mental Health Act 1983 was “unlawfully at large” until returned to prison for the purposes of sentence calculation.
 
Dalton v Latham and Others 271
Issue: Whether relief from forfeiture should be allowed when the killer suffered from a mental disorder.
 
R v Drew 282
Issue: Whether the imposition of an automatic life sentence for a second serious offence breached the European Convention in relation to an offender who qualified for a hospital order
 
Antoine v UK 292
Issue: Whether there was a breach of A’s rights under Art 6 European Convention in the conduct of proceedings under the Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964; whether his ongoing detention breached Arts 3, 5 or 6.
 
R (X) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 299
Issue: Whether a Tribunal should have adjourned for further information at the conclusion of the evidence and submissions; requirements for a fair hearing.
 
R v Mohammed Latif 305
Issue: Whether an admission order was appropriate on the evidence; the proper route of appeal.
 
R v Terry James Fairley 310
Issue: The correct approach where a Crown Court judge had made a hospital order following a finding that a defendant was unfit to stand trial but had committed the actus reus alleged.
 
R v Wayne Martin (AG’s Reference No 71 of 2002) 312
Issue: The correct sentence for a sex offender who was a paedophile with a personality disorder, but for whom no hospital place was available
 
R (KW) v Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust and Bristol City Council 315
Issue: Whether a Tribunal decision was adequately reasoned and whether it had followed a fair procedure in rejecting the evidence of the treating psychiatrist.
 
R (T-T) v Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust (Administrative Court) 321
Issue: Whether a panel of 3 hospital managers can discharge a patient by majority
 
R (T-T) v Central and North West London Mental Health NHS Trust (Court of Appeal) 326
Issue: Whether a panel of 3 hospital managers can discharge a patient by majority
 
R v Dietschmann 333
Issue: The correct direction to be given to a jury where a defendant who raises the defence of diminished responsibility was both intoxicated and suffering from an abnormality of mind at the time of the killing.
 
Grey v UK 343
Issue: Whether Art 5 was breached when a Tribunal decision to absolutely discharge a restricted patient was was quashed by judicial review and a further Tribunal upheld detention several months later.
 
R (M) v Secretary of State for Health 348
Issue: Whether a declaration of incompatibility should be granted in relation to the inability of a patient to change her nearest relative
 
R (Mersey Care NHS Trust) v Mental Health Review Tribunal 354
Issue: Whether the RMO may question witnesses and make closing submissions at a tribunal hearing; whether the tribunal’s decision to discharge the patient was rational and adequately reasoned.
 
R (Munjaz) v Mersey Care NHS Trust; R (S) v Airedale NHS Trust 362
Issue: Whether a hospital policy on seclusion that departed from the Code of Practice to the Mental Health Act 1983 was lawful; whether the decision to seclude a detained patient was lawful; the status of the Code of Practice; whether issue estoppel applied in judicial review proceedings; whether the tort of false imprisonment was available where there had been unlawful seclusion of a detained patient.
 
MP v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust 381
Issue: Whether a Tribunal can direct the transfer of restricted patients to conditions of lesser security (including as part of a deferred conditional discharge); if not, whether Art 5 European Convention is breached.
 
Ward v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis and another 389
Issue: Whether a warrant issued under s135 Mental Health Act 1983 was valid
 
R (A) v Harrow Crown Court 393
Issue: Whether an order made by a Crown Court under ss37 and 41 Mental Health Act 1983 in respect of an accused found unfit to plead was unlawful and infringed his rights under Art 5 European Convention
 
R (Bitcon) v (1) West Allerdale Magistrates Court (2) Eden Valley Primary Care Trust 399
Issue: Whether an order made under s35 Mental Health Act 1983 to remand an accused to hospital for reports on his mental condition was ultra vires; whether a health authority refusal to provide funding for the placement under s35 was lawful
 
R v Rosario Rosso 404
Issue: Whether police officers required a warrant under s135 Mental Health Act 1983 to enter a room in a hotel to take and convey to hospital a person who was the subject of an application for admission under s2 of the 1983 Act; whether a Restriction Order without limit of time was appropriate
 
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