View source for Mental health law in Southern Ireland

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==Legislation==
See [[:Category:Southern Irish legislation]]

==Cases==
{{catlist|Southern Irish cases}}

Maybe to add: 

*SO v Clinical Director of the Adelaide and Meath Hospital of Tallaght [2013] IEHC 132 
*AB v Commissioner of An Garda Siochana [2013] IEHC 88
*Fleming v Ireland [2013] IEHC 2
*XY v Clinical Director of St Patrick's University Hospital [2012] IEHC 224 8/6/12 High Court
*PL v Clinical Director of St Patrick's University Hospital High Court 14/12/12
* PL v Clinical Director of St Patrick's University Hospital [2012] IEHC 15
* EC v Clinical Director of the Central Mental Hospital, Southern Irish High Court 5/4/12
* FX v Clinical Director of the Central Mental Hospital, Southern Irish High Court 3 July 201
*Kirwan v Mental Health Commission [2012] IEHC 217
*EC v Clinical Director of the Central Mental Hospital [2012] IEHC 152 5/4/12 
*DF (suing by his Testamentary Guardian and Next Friend, KM) v Garda Commissioner and others, High Court, 11/4/14

The following is a list of cases, yet to be added to MHLO, which is based on a [http://imhla.org/case-law/ list] on the [[IMHLA]] website. The links generally work.

'''2007'''

AM v Kennedy [2007] IEHC 136;  [2007] 4 I.R. 667 Peart J., 24 April 2007 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2006/H136.html Bailii]

AMC v St. Luke’s Hospital, Clonmel [2007] IEHC 65; [2007] 2 IR 814 (Justis), Peart J., High Court, 28 February 2007 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H65.html Bailii]

B v The Clinical Director of Our Lady's Hospital Navan [2007] IEHC 403, [2010] 3 IR 426, High Court, 5 November 2007

JB v Central Mental Hospital (No 1) [2007] IEHC 147, McGovern J., High Court, 4 May 2007 [http://www.courts.ie/Judgments.nsf/09859e7a3f34669680256ef3004a27de/ca2c362c6070f65e80257360004d5786?OpenDocument Judgment]

JB v Director Central Mental Hospital (No.2) [2007] IEHC 201; [2007] 4 I.R. 778,  MacMenamin J., 15 June 2007 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H201.html Bailii]

JB v Director Central Mental Hospital (No.3), Sheehan J., 15 August 2007 - [http://www.mhcirl.ie/Mental_Health_Tribunals/Judgments/B_J_v_Director_of_the_Central_Mental.pdf Judgment]

JD v Director of Central Mental Hospital [2007] IEHC 100, Finlay Geoghegan J., High Court, ex tempore, 20 March 2007 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H100.html Bailii]

JH v Lawlor, clinical director of Jonathan Swift Clinic, St. James Hospital, Dublin [2007] IEHC 225; [2008] 1 I.R. 476, Peart J., 25th June 2007

JH v Russell [2007] IEHC 7; [2007] 4 I.R. 242, Clarke J., High Court, 6 February 2007 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H7.html Bailii]

JJ v Clinical Director St Ita’s Hospital, Portrane circa 3 December 2007 ???

Q v St Patrick’s Hospital, O’Higgins J., ex tempore, 21 December 2006

M v Director Central Mental Hospital, High Court, Hanna J., April 13, 2007 (counsel’s note of ex tempore judgment )

MD v Clinical Director of St Brendan’s Hospital & Anor [2007] IEHC 183; [2008] 1 I.R. 632;   Peart J.,  24 May 2007 [http://www.courts.ie/Judgments.nsf/09859e7a3f34669680256ef3004a27de/71bfc9b75409c49980257300005b6f7b?OpenDocument Judgment]

MD v. Clinical Director of St Brendan’s Hospital & Anor [2007] IESC 37; [2008] 1 I.R. 632;   Supreme Court, 27 July 2007 [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IESC/2007/S37.html Bailii]

Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform v MM [2007] IEHC 443 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H443.html Bailii]

MR v Byrne and Flynn [2007] IEHC 73; [2007] 3 I.R. 211 (Justis), O’Neill J., High Court, 2 March 2007 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H73.html Bailii]

NB v Clinical Director of Our Lady’s Hospital Navan and Others [2007] IEHC 403; High Court, ex tempore, Sheehan J., 5 November 2007 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H403.html Bailii]

PMcG v Medical Director of the Mater Hospital [2007] IEHC 401, [2008] 2 IR 332, High Court Peart J. November 29th 2007 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H401.html Bailii]

RW v Clinical Director of St John of God’s Hospital [2007] IEHC 184, Peart J., 22 May 2007 [http://www.courts.ie/Judgments.nsf/09859e7a3f34669680256ef3004a27de/33a48b2c709c993c8025730000555e09?OpenDocument Judgment]

TO’D v Kennedy [2007] IEHC 129; [2007] 3 IR 689 (Justis), Charleton J., High Court, 25 April 2007 [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H129.html Bailii]

WQ v Mental Health Commission [2007] IEHC 154; [2007] 3 IR 755 (Justis), O’Neill J., High Court, 15 May 2007 [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2007/H154.html Bailii]

'''2008'''

Application of a Patient, S.L. [2008] I.E.H.C. 153, Charleton J., May 27, 2008

EJW (a person of unsound mind) v Watters, Peart J., 25 November 2008 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2008/H462.html Bailii]

FW v Dept of Psychiatry James Memorial Connolly Hospital [2008] IEHC 283, [2009] 1 IR 666, Hedigan J., High Court, 18 August 2008 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2008/H283.html Bailii]

Han v President of the Circuit Court [2008] IEHC 160, Charleton J., 30 May 2008 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2008/H160.html Bailii]

JB v Mental Health (Criminal Law) Review Board [2008] IEHC 303, High Court, Insanity Act Case, Hanna J., July 25, 2008 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2008/H303.html Bailii]

MM v Director of the Central Mental Hospital [2008] IEHC 44, High Court, Peart J., 1 February 2008 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2008/H44.html Bailii]

MM v Clinical Director of the Central Mental Hospital (Mental Health Tribunal, notice party) [2008] IESC 31, [2008] 4 IR 669, Supreme Court, 7 May 2008 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IESC/2008/S31.html Bailii]

MZ v Khattak and Tallaght Hospital Board [2008] IEHC 262, Peart J., High Court, 28 July 2008 - [http://www.bailii.org/ie/cases/IEHC/2008/H262.html Bailii]

PG v Branigan [2008] I.E.H.C. 450, High Court, McCarthy J., December 12, 2008 - [http://www.courts.ie/Judgments.nsf/09859e7a3f34669680256ef3004a27de/a3d4f458301cdb608025757e0041bd58?OpenDocument Judgment]

RL v Clinical Director of St. Brendan’s Hospital & Ors. [2008] IEHC 11, [2008] 3 IR 296, Feeney J., 1

==External links==
[http://www.mhcirl.ie/ Southern Irish Mental Health Commission]
*[http://www.mhcirl.ie/Mental_Health_Tribunals/MHC%20Case%20Law%20Summary%2014%20December%202009.pdf Summary of judgments delivered by the superior courts on the interpretation of the Mental Health Act 2001] - December 2009
*[http://www.mhcirl.ie/Mental_Health_Tribunals/Judgments/Index_to_MHA_2001_Judgements_Dec_2006_to_March_2009.pdf Index to Mental Health Act 2001 Judgments (Article 40 and Judicial Review from December 2006 to May 2009)]
*[http://www.mhcirl.ie/Mental_Health_Act_2001/ Mental Health Act 2001] - Including links to Codes of Practice, Rules, Reference Guide, Statutory forms, Patient notification forms, Irish and international-related legislation, and Clinical practice forms
*[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2012/0912/1224323910694.html Harry Kennedy, '"Libertarian" groupthink not helping mentally ill' (Irish Times, 12/9/12)]
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