Detention of a recently-discharged psychiatric patient
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https://doi.org/10.19164/ijmhcl.v0i6.357Abstract
R v East London & the City Mental Health NHS Trust and David Stuart Snazell, Approved Social Worker, ex parte Count Franz Von Brandenburg
Court of Appeal, 21 February 2001, The Master of the Rolls, Buxton LJ and Sedley LJ
[2001] 3 WLR 588
Although it was unnecessary to show a change in circumstances following discharge by a MHRT, it would be difficult for an ASW to be satisfied that a fresh application for detention, made within days of detention, ought to be made
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