The Weekly Law Reports
[2006] 1 WLR 810
Court of Appeal
Regina (B) v S and others
[2006] EWCA Civ 28
2005 Nov 28,
29;
2006 Jan 26
2006 Jan 26
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers CJ, Thorpe and Rix LJJ
Mental disorder
— Medical treatment, consent to
— Refusal to consent
— Convicted rapist detained in secure mental hospital refusing to consent to proposed treatment
— Whether compulsory treatment in breach of Convention rights
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Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20), s. 58(3)
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Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch. 1, Pt I, arts 3, 8, 14