The Public and Third Sector Law Reports
[2022] PTSR 833
Court of Appeal
Regina (Worcestershire County Council)
v
Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
[2021] EWCA Civ 1957
2021 Dec 2; 22
Coulson, Carr, William Davis LJJ
Local government— Community care services— Discharged mental patient— Patient detained in hospital over two separate periods— Dispute as to which local authority responsible for cost of after-care services— Whether original duty owed by local authority at time of first detention ceasing— Where patient “ordinarily resident” immediately before second detention—
Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20), s 117(1)(2)(3) (as amended by Care Act 2014 (c 23), s 75)
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