R v Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust, ex parte L (Secretary of State for Health intervening)

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Judgment Date1998
Date1998
Year1998
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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  • Re A (Children) (Conjoined Twins: Surgical Separation)
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 22 September 2000
    ... [1990] 2 AC 1, and more recently, in a speech with which the other members of the House of Lords agreed, in R v Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust ex parte L [1999] 1 AC 458. This doctrine is so obscure, and it has featured so seldom in our caselaw in the criminal courts, th......
  • Reid v Secretary of State for Scotland
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 3 December 1998
    ...underlying Part V of the Act, corresponding to Part II of the English Act, was considered by the House in Reg. v. Bournewood Community and Mental Health N.H.S. Trust, Ex parte L [1998] 3 W.L.R. 107. Putting it very briefly, the purpose was to encourage the admission of patients on a volunt......
  • R (MH) v Secretary of State for Health
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 20 October 2005
    ... ... under the formal procedures in the Mental Health Act 1983 do have the very limited capacity ... by the decision of this House in R v Bournewood Community and Mental Health NHS Trust, Ex p L ... ...
  • Broadmoor Special Hospital Authority and Another v Robinson
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 December 1999
    ... ... is a special hospital provided by the Secretary of State for the Department of Health pursuant to ... defendant was undergoing treatment for his mental illness. At the time of his offence, apparently, ... On 1 May 1998 Mr Justice Colman made an ex parte order granting the injunctions. The defendant's ... relief even though the courts will be intervening to protect a public duty. Thus, in the Chief ... ...
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