GM v Dorset Healthcare National Health Service Trust and the Secretary of State for Justice: [2020] UKUT 152 (AAC)

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision of Judge Jacobs on 4 May 2020.

Read the full decision in HM/2172/2019.

Judicial Summary

When a patient who was detained pursuant to section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 is made subject to a hospital order without a restriction order, the First-tier Tribunal has no jurisdiction on any application or reference that was lodged before the order was made.

Decision selected for reporting as [2020] AACR 26

Published 25 June 2020