Hearings
England & Wales
25 Jul 2002 [2002] UKHL 34; [2002] 2 AC 1127; [2002] 3 WLR 584; [2002] 4 All ER 124; [2002] LGR 557; The Times, 29 August 2002; The Independent, 30 July 2002, HL(E)
R v Manchester City Council, Ex p Stennett
See also
Subject Matter
LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Community care services — Discharged mental patients — Duty to provide after-care services including accommodation to persons ceasing to be compulsorily detained — Whether services to be provided under other enactments — Whether authorities entitled to levy charges for accommodation — National Assistance Act 1948 (as amended by Local Government Act 1972, s 195(6), Sch 23, para 2(1), Children Act 1989, s 108(5), Sch 13, para 11(1) and National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990, ss 42(1), 44(1)(2), 66, Sch 9, para 5(3)), ss 21, 22 — Mental Health Act 1983 (as amended by Health Authorities Act 1995, s 2(1), Sch 1, para 107(1)(8), Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995, s 1(2), Sch 1, para 15 and Crime (Sentences) Act 1997, s 55, Sch 4, para 12(17)), s 117
[2002] UKHL 34; [2002] 2 AC 1127; [2002] 3 WLR 584; [2002] 4 All ER 124; [2002] LGR 557; The Times, 29 August 2002; The Independent, 30 July 2002, HL(E)
Appellate History
R v Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council, Ex p Watson [2001] QB 370; [2000] 3 WLR 1127; [2001] 1 All ER 436; [2000] LGR 691, CA
Decision of the Court of Appeal affirmed
R v Manchester City Council, Ex p Stennett [2002] UKHL 34; [2002] 2 AC 1127; [2002] 3 WLR 584; [2002] 4 All ER 124; [2002] LGR 557; The Times, 29 August 2002; The Independent, 30 July 2002, HL(E)