Hospital treatment for incapacitated adults

Medical Law Review

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 274-281

  Gunn, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; NOTE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ENGLAND; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 67649460759     PISSN: 09670742     EISSN: 14643790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwp004     Document Type: Note

References (28)

1. City of Sunderland v. PS and others [2007] EWHC 623 (Fam)
2. BJ (Incapacitated Adults) [2008] EWHC 1097 (Fam) and
3. subsequently under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (Surrey Council v. MB and others [2007] EWHC 3085 (Fam).
4. [1990] 2 AC 1.
5. Bolam v. Friern Hospital Management Committee [1957] 1 WLR 582.
6. S (Hospital Patient: Court's jurisdiction) (No. 1) [1996] Fam 1.
7. A (A patient) v. A Health Authority [2002] EWHC 18 (Fam), Munby J.
8. Ibid.
9. Re MB (An Adult: Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FCR 541 at 555.
10. [2000] 1 FLR 549.
11. [2001] Fam 15.
12. HL v. United Kingdom (2004) 40 EHRR 761.
13. (1981) 3 EHRR 333.
14. At [92].
15. 3rd ed, Sweet & Maxwell, 2008.
16. At 2-006.
17. At 2-006.
18. Derived from HM v. Switzerland (2004) 38 EHRR 17.
19. D. Hewitt, Legal Update: The DoLS in Doubt? Weightmans Legal Update, February 2009.
20. TSO, London 2008.
21. See, for example, R.M. Jones, above, n.13, part 2
22. P. Fennell, Mental Health: The New Law (Jordans 2007)
23. P. Bartlett, Blackstone's Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (2nd ed, OUP 2008) ch. 4
24. P. Bowen, Blackstone's Guide to the Mental Health Act 2007 (OUP 2007), part II.
25. P. Fennell, above n.18, 6.104.
26. Jones, above n.13, 2-030 to 2-033.
27. (1985) 8 EHRR 235.
28. Jones, above n.13, 1-405.