by Allan Norman
It is more than a decade now since the application for judicial review on behalf of HL, of Bournewood Hospital in Surrey began the sequence of litigation that eventually became the
seminal ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, which overturned the judgements of every court in this country and held the informal arrangements for holding and treating certain people lacking capacity to consent or object contravened their human rights.
Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/mental-health/2008/01/best-interests-beats-human-rig-1.html
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