Hearings
England & Wales
22 May 2014 [2014] EWCA Civ 712; [2014] PTSR 1066; [2015] 2 All ER 518; [2015] LGR 276; [2014] WLR (D) 229, CA
R (Wiltshire Council) v Hertfordshire County Council
Subject Matter
LOCAL GOVERNMENT — Community care services — Discharged mental patient — Dispute as to which local authority responsible for providing after-care services — Patient subject to hospital order with restrictions — Patient conditionally discharged but recalled then discharged again — Whether patient to be treated as being resident in area of same local authority as when original hospital order made — Mental Health Act 1983, s 117(1)(2)(3) (as amended by Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995, s 1(2), Sch 1, para 15 and Health and Social Care Act 2012, s 40(2)