Pickering v Liverpool Daily Post

(1990) 1 Med LR 341

COURT OF APPEAL

Lord DONALDSON of Lymington MR, Lord Justice GLIDEWELL, and Lord Justice FARQUHARSON

Mental health — Mental health review tribunal — Contempt — Whether publication of date of hearing, anything said or done, contents of any document produced, and names of any persons concerned in mental health review tribunal proceedings prohibited — Whether tribunal a “court” — Whether patients who apply to tribunal for discharge, members of and persons who tender evidence to such tribunal may apply for injunction restraining such publication