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Broadmoor patient “determined to get heard” in landmark case (25 September 2011)

The Upper Tribunal took a landmark decision by ordering that the First-tier Mental Health Tribunal hold a public hearing of AH^s application for discharge from hospital, establishing the important principle that open justice should extend to the usually private setting of mental health tribunals.
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Broadmoor patient fighting for right to tell his story (23 September 2011)

The power to release Mr Haines rests with a mental health tribunal, the secretive system that has the unenviable task of
deciding whether someone should continue to be sectioned. Read more...

Broadmoor patient “determined to get heard” in landmark case (23 September 2011)

A man detained at Broadmoor high-security hospital has spoken of his “determination to get heard” ahead of becoming the first psychiatric patient to have an appeal against detention open to the public. Read more...

An important precedent in a secretive world (23 September 2011)

The right to an open hearing is not likely to be taken up often. It is an option that should be available to all. All patients should have the opportunity to prove, if they wish, that they are capable of making a judgment about their own interests. Read more...

Broadmoor patient makes history with court appeal in the case of AH v WLMHT (9 March 2011)

A patient in Broadmoor Hospital who has spent more than two decades alongside some of Britain^s most dangerous criminals has won the right to have a review into his detention heard in public. This is the first result of this kind and will have major implications for the way Mental Health Tribunals will function in the future.
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‘Missing the Bus’ in Open Court (21 February 2011)

Today on the 15 February 2011 the Court of Protection sitting at the Royal Courts of Justice met to consider a case of a 21 yr old woman (P), suffering from learning disabilities who is due to deliver her second child tomorrow by elective Caesarean.
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