Mental Health in UK Law
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R (Razgar) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... by article 8 be engaged by the foreseeable consequences for health or welfare of removal from the United Kingdom pursuant to an immigration ... country would hasten the applicant's death and subject him to acute mental and physical suffering. In view of those very exceptional circumstances, ... ...
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R v Turner (Terence)
... ... in particular to assess the Appellant's "personality, his present mental state and to consider from the psychiatric point of view his emotional ... to show any evidence of mental illness as defined by the Mental Health Act of 1959. His homicidal behaviour would appear to be understandable in ... ...
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J v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... , has at all material times been treating the appellant for his mental illness in this country. In his report of 20 November 2002, he referred to ... to Algeria would have such a damaging effect on his mental health that it would place him at risk of inhuman and degrading treatment and ... ...
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AM (Zimbabwe) v Secretary of State for the Home Department
... ... The letter had been written by a nurse in the sexual health clinic of a hospital. She said that he had been diagnosed as HIV positive ... me which would indicate that the appellant's current medical or mental health condition would be sufficient to reach the high threshold necessary ... ...
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Rabone and another v Pennine Care NHS Trust
... ... as an informal patient (ie one who was not detained under the Mental Health Act 1983 ("the MHA")). She had been admitted to the hospital as an ... ...
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P (by his litigation friend the Official Solicitor) v Cheshire West and Chester Council and another
... ... known as the deprivation of liberty safeguards, set out in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 ("the Mental Capacity Act"). If they do not, no ... of the mentally incapacitated person, although of course the health or social care bodies who make the arrangements do so in the hope and ... ...
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Masterman-Lister v Brutton; Masterman-Lister v Jewell
... ... was common ground before the judge that because of his physical and mental disabilities he is very unlikely ever to be able to obtain worthwhile ... been a "patient", within the meaning of section 94(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983, that is to say a person who "is incapable by reason of mental ... ...
- R (N) v Mental Health Review Tribunal (Northern Region) and Others
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R (M) v Ashworth Hospital Authority
... ... and Ashworth Hospital Authority (now Mersey Care National Health Service Trust) (Appellants) ex parte Munjaz (FC) ... (Instructed by Hogans) ... Interveners ... Mental Health Act Commission ... Jonathan Swift ... (Written intervention) ... ...
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Department of Constitutional Affairs v Jones
... ... section 1 of the 1995 Act: “… a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on his ... continuing treatment would provide a remedy and get me back to good health. I was fifty nine years of age. I had worked for over thirty years in the ... ...
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