The Weekly Law Reports
[2000] 3 WLR 1127
[COURT OF APPEAL]
REGINA v. RICHMOND LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL, Ex parte WATSON
REGINA v. REDCAR AND CLEVELAND BOROUGH COUNCIL, Ex parte ARMSTRONG
REGINA v. MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL, Ex parte STENNETT
REGINA v. HARROW LONDON BOROUGH COUNCIL, Ex parte COBHAM
2000 May 18,
19;
July 27
July 27
Otton and Buxton L.JJ. and Hooper J.
Local Government
— Community care services
— Discharged mental patients
— Duty to provide after-care services including accommodation to persons ceasing to be compulsorily detained
— Whether services to be provided under other enactments
— Whether authorities entitled to levy charges for accommodation
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National Assistance Act 1948 (11 & 12 Geo. 6, c. 29) (as amended by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 195(6), Sch. 23, para. 2(1), Children Act 1989 (c. 41), s. 108(5), Sch. 13, para. 11(1) and National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19), ss. 42(1), 44(1)(2), 66, Sch. 9, para. 5(3)), ss. 21, 22
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Mental Health Act 1983 (c. 20) (as amended by Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 17), s. 2(1), Sch. 1, para. 107(8) and Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 (c. 52), s. 1(2), Sch. 1, para. 15), s. 117