R v Hallstrom, Ex parte W

Subject Matter

MENTAL DISORDER — Admission for treatment — Leave of absence — Patients refusing consent to treatment — Patient living in hostel detained in hospital for one night — Whether admission to hospital lawful — Second patient on leave from hospital at home — Doctor reporting that treatment necessary for patient's health — Authority to detain patient renewed by hospital managers — Whether doctor's report valid — Whether renewal lawful — Mental Health Act 1983, ss 3, 17, 20(3)(4)

[1986] QB 1090; [1986] 2 WLR 883; [1986] 2 All ER 306, QBD