The applicants case was struck out after a friendly settlement under which the UK government undertook to seek to amend Mental Health legislation. Current law did not provide an opportunity for a detained person to apply to court to have substituted some other person for the ‘nearest relative’ initially appointed, and in this case to substitute a social worker. Certain persons would also be excluded from the class of potential nearest relatives.
Hudoc Judgment (Struck out of the list) Struck out of the list (arrangement)
Times 05-Apr-2000, 26494/95, [2000] ECHR 133
Worldlii, Bailii
Mental Health Act 1983, European Convention on Human Rights
Human Rights
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Cited – Regina (M) v Secretary of State for Health QBD 16-Apr-2003
In the J T case the UK government had reached a friendly settlement under which it accepted that the United Kingdom law under sections 26 and 29 of the 1983 Act was an infringement of a patients human rights. It had been accepted that the . .
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Updated: 23 August 2021; Ref: scu.165842