The Weekly Law Reports
[2023] 4 WLR 72
Family Division
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
v
HJ
[2023] EWFC 92
2022 May 24; 2023 June 17
David Lock KC sitting as a High Court judge
Mental capacity— Incapable person— Deprivation of liberty— Person lacking mental capacity detained in hospital for psychological treatment but also requiring separate treatment for physical conditions— Treating trust concerned that restraint required to administer treatment for physical conditions amounting to further deprivation of vulnerable adult’s residual liberty— Whether such restraint further deprivation of liberty requiring authorisation under inherent jurisdiction of High Court—
Human Rights Act 1998 (c 42), Sch 1, Pt I, arts 5, 8
[1]
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Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c 9), ss 4, 5, 6
[1]
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