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[2023] WLR(D) 354
Supreme Court
Rex (Worcestershire County Council) v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
[2023] UKSC 31
2023 April 27; Aug 10
Lord Reed PSC, Lord Hamblen, Lord Leggatt, Lord Burrows, Lord Richards JJSC
Local government— Community care services— Discharge of patient with mental health condition— Patient detained in hospital over two separate periods in different local authority areas— Dispute as to which local authority responsible for cost of after-care services including accommodation— 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
, s 117