M v Secretary of State for Justice

Subject Matter

MENTAL DISORDER — Tribunal — Discharge of patient — Patient detained indefinitely in mental hospital under post-conviction restriction order — Medical experts agreeing to patient’s discharge on conditions — Patient agreeing to conditions involving deprivation of liberty — Whether appropriate tribunal having power to order discharge on conditions amounting to deprivation of liberty — Whether patient with capacity able to consent to deprivation of liberty — Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20) (as amended by Mental Health Act 1983 (Remedial) Order 2001 (SI 2001/3712), art 4, Mental Health Act 2007 (c 12), s 4(9) and Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (SI 2008/2833), art 6, Sch 3, paras 41, 54), s 73

[2017] EWCA Civ 194; [2017] 1 WLR 4681; [2017] WLR (D) 235, CA

MENTAL DISORDER — Tribunal — Discharge of patient — Detained patient made subject to community treatment order — Whether appropriate tribunal having power to scrutinise and revise conditions imposed on community patient by responsible clinician — Whether power to examine compatibility of conditions with patient’s Convention rights and to remedy breach — Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended by Mental Health Act 1983 (Remedial) Order 2001, art 3, Mental Health Act 2007, s 32(2), Sch 3, para 21(2)(a)(b), Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008, art 6, Sch 3, para 53(a)(b)), ss 17A–17E, 72(1)(c) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 5

[2017] EWCA Civ 194; [2017] 1 WLR 4681; [2017] WLR (D) 235, CA

MENTAL DISORDER — Tribunal — Discharge of patient — Patient detained indefinitely in hospital under post-conviction restriction order — Patient seeking order for conditional discharge from hospital to community placement with restrictions as to patient’s movements — Patient agreeing to proposed conditions notwithstanding deprivation of liberty — Whether tribunal having power to order discharge on conditions involving deprivation of liberty — Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20), ss 42(2), 73(1)(2) (as amended by Mental Health Act 1983 (Remedial) Order 2001 (SI 2001/3712), art 4, Mental Health Act 2007 (c 12), s 4(9) and Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (SI 2008/2833), art 9, Sch 3, para 54) — Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, art 5

[2018] UKSC 60; [2019] AC 712; [2018] 3 WLR 1784; [2019] 2 All ER 749; [2018] WLR (D) 727; Case details, SC(E)

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New Judgment: Secretary of State for Justice v MM [2018] UKSC 60 Case comment