SM v Livewell Southwest Community Interest Co

Subject Matter

MENTAL DISORDER — Mental health tribunal — Application — Patient applying for review of detention in hospital — First-tier Tribunal striking out application for want of jurisdiction on ground patient lacking capacity to make application — Whether such capacity necessary to found tribunal’s jurisdiction — Whether tribunal applying correct test of capacity — Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20) (as amended by Mental Health Act 2007 (c 12), s 4, Sch 1, para 2, Sch 11, para 1 and Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order 2008 (SI 2008/2833), Sch 3, para 46), ss 2, 3, 66(1) — Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Health, Education and Social Chamber) Rules 2008 (SI 2008/2699), r 8(3)(a)

[2020] UKUT 191 (AAC); [2020] 1 WLR 5171; [2020] WLR(D) 511, UT