The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 2 WLR 764
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA
v.
BOURNEWOOD COMMUNITY AND MENTAL HEALTH N.H.S. TRUST,
Ex parte
L.
1997 Oct. 29;
Dec. 2
Dec. 2
Lord Woolf M.R., Phillips and Chadwick L.JJ.
Mental Disorder— Admission for treatment— Validity of detention— Informal admission of mentally disordered patient incapable of giving or refusing consent— Intention to prevent patient from leaving— Whether power to admit patient informally— Whether common law doctrine of necessity applying— Whether patient unlawfully detained—
Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20), s. 131 (as amended by Children Act 1989 (c. 41), s. 108(5), Sch. 13, para. 48(5))