Fathoming Section 62 of the MHA 1983
The Mental Health Act 1983 [hereafter MHA] provides many powers to detain patients for treatment in hospital. Many amendments were made in 2007. The legislation is complex – necessarily so …
immediate
What do urgency and immediacy mean?
If someone is actively slashing their wrists or about to jump from a building, or about to stab someone to death – those are obviously urgent situations. The risk, the …