The Weekly Law Reports
[1998] 3 WLR 107
[HOUSE OF LORDS]
REGINA
v.
BOURNEWOOD COMMUNITY AND MENTAL HEALTH N.H.S. TRUST,
Ex parte
L.
1998 June 2,
3,
4,
8;
25
Lord Goff of Chieveley, Lord Lloyd of Berwick, Lord Nolan, Lord Steyn and Lord Hope of Craighead
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
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Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20), s. 131(1)