Health care failings in killings – BBC News
“A man who killed a 21-year-old man had told mental health services of his fantasies to murder – but was not given adequate help, a report has found.”
BBC News, 8th May 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Category: mental health
Regina (Eisai Ltd) v National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence – Times Law Reports
Regina (Eisai Ltd) v National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Court of Appeal
“Procedural fairness required the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence to release a fully executable version of an economic model to those consulted in the course of an appraisal process and not simply a read-only version. To do otherwise would place drug companies at a significant disadvantage in challenging the reliability of those models.”
The Times, 7th May 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Ruling ‘denies treatment to 100,000 Alzheimer’s patients’ – Daily Telegraph
“Almost 100,000 Alzheimer’s patients face being denied NHS treatment which could delay the onset of their disease, the Court of Appeal was told yesterday.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th April 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Life for Gulf War veteran David Bradley, who shot dead four of his family – The Times
” A Gulf War veteran who killed four members of his family was jailed yesterday after a court heard how he ‘freaked out’ on a hot summer’s night.”
The Times, 10th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Westminster City Council v IC and Others – Times Law Reports
Westminster City Council v IC and Others
Court of Appeal
“A judge did not have jurisdiction to make a declaration that a marriage based on lack of consent was not valid under English law, since such a marriage was voidable and not void ab intitio; the judge should have declared that the marriage was not recognised as a valid marriage in this jurisdiction.”
The Times, 3rd April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
Husband let wife starve to death – BBC News
“A 71-year-old man has been jailed after letting his mentally ill wife starve to death while he went to the pub and visited the bookmakers.”
BBC News, 28th March 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Unlawful killing verdict on Liam Hogan, who was pushed from balcony by his father – The Times
“A holidaymaker who pushed his two children from a fourth-floor balcony during a row with his wife may be prosecuted in England after his release from a Greek psychiatric hospital.”
The Times, 28th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina (Rayner) v Secretary of State for Justice – Times Law Reports
Regina (Rayner) v Secretary of State for Justice
Court of Appeal
“The statutory scheme dealing with the referral of a recalled mental patient to a mental health review tribunal was not incompatible with the patient’s rights under article 5.4 of the European Convention on Human Rights.”
The Times, 26th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
R (Rayner) v Secretary of State for Justice – WLR Daily
R (Rayner) v Secretary of State for Justice [2008] EWCA Civ 176; [2008] WLR (D) 85
“The statutory scheme dealing with the referral of the case a recalled mental patient to a mental health review tribunal was not incompatible with the patient’s rights under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, whether because of the timescale envisaged or for lack of a right of direct access to a court.”
WLR Daily, 12th March 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
Please note once a case has been fully reported in one of the ICLR series the corresponding WLR Daily summary is removed.
Battle for disturbed tycoon’s £10m leaves Tories with huge legal bill – The Times
“The Tories are facing a £700,000 legal bill for trying to hold on to a £10 million bequest from a mentally unfit tycoon who believed Margaret Thatcher could save the world from Satan.”
The Times, 6th March 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Teenager wins damages after council took baby – The Guardian
“Nottingham city council today agreed to pay damages to a teenage mother after admitting it acted unlawfully by taking away her newborn baby.”
The Guardian, 18th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Law ‘reinforced mental health stereotypes – The Guardian
“The government today admitted its controversial new mental health law led to negative media coverage that reinforced the misconception that people with mental health problems are violent.”
The Guardian, 18th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Baby must remain in foster care – BBC News
“An 18-year-old mother, whose baby was taken into local authority care hours after he was born, has had her appeal to get him back turned down.”
BBC News, 7th February 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Mentally ill man killed woman on mixed ward – Daily Telegraph
“An MP has demanded an inquiry into mixed wards after a paranoid schizophrenic admitted killing a female patient in the next bed.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Man accused of raping girl after fleeing secure hospital – The Guardian
“A major investigation was under way yesterday after a man was accused of escaping from a secure mental health unit and raping a schoolgirl.”
The Guardian, 7th February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Baby returned to mother must go into foster care, says judge – The Guardian
“A baby taken from his 18-year-old mother by social workers two hours after his birth without court authority must go into foster care while further inquiries are made and assessments carried out, a district judge ruled yesterday.”
The Guardian, 2nd February 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Disturbed patients refused help in squabble over cash – The Times
“The Mental Health Act Commission has found that practitioners are being told to delay sectioning people with urgent mental health needs until primary care trusts ascertain who should pay for their treatment.”
The Times, 31st January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Mother faces new fight to keep baby – The Independent
“A teenage mother reunited with her newborn baby by a judge yesterday will today face a social services application to take the boy away again.”
The Independent, 31st January 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Mental Health Campaign: Families demand full inquests for deaths in secure hospitals – The Independent
“Hundreds of people with mental health problems are dying while detained in hospital but their deaths are not being fully investigated.”
The Independent, 27th Janaury 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust – Times Law Reports
Savage v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Court of Appeal
“To establish that a hospital at which a suicide had been a detained mental patient was in breach of the right to life guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights, the claimant had to show that at the time of the suicide the hospital knew or ought to have known of the existence of a real and immediate risk to her life from self-harm and that it failed to take measures which reasonably might have been expected to avoid that risk.”
The Times, 9th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
