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Ex parte Waldron

Subject Matter

MENTAL DISORDER — Leave to bring proceedings — Judicial review — Patient's admission to hospital for treatment — Patient's application for leave to apply for judicial review to quash application for admission — Whether constituting “civil proceedings” — Whether court having jurisdiction to grant leave — Mental Health Act 1983, ss 3, 139

[1986] QB 824; [1985] 3 WLR 1090; [1985] 3 All ER 775, CA

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