AN NHS TRUST v DR A (BY HIS LITIGATION FRIEND THE OFFICAL SOLICTOR)

[2013] Med LR 561

COURT OF PROTECTION

Before Mr Justice BAKER

Medical treatment – Capacity – Hunger strike – Protest by mentally ill asylum seeker – Force feeding amounting to a deprivation of liberty – Whether food medical treatment for mental disorder – Whether forcible provision of artifi cial nutrition and hydration lawful under the Mental Health Act 1983, Mental Capacity Act 2005 or the High Court's inherent jurisdiction – ECHR, articles 2, 5 and 8.