R v Merseyside Mental Health Review Tribunal

(1989) 1 Med LR 110

COURT OF APPEAL

Lord Justice KERR, Lord Justice BUTLER-SLOSS, and Sir Denys BUCKLEY

Mental disorder — Offender — Discharge — Hospital order and restriction order without limit of time — Patient's application for discharge to Mental Health Review Tribunals — Finding by tribunals that patient not suffering from mental disorder but appropriate for him to remain liable to be recalled to hospital — Conditional discharge granted — Whether tribunals obliged to grant absolute discharge — Whether applicant remained a “patient” — Mental Health Act 1983, sections 1(2), 37(2), 41(1)(2)(3), 72(1)(b)(i)(ii), 73(1)(a)(2), 75(2)(3)