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Has the safeguard preventing consecutive detained patient paper hearings been affected by tribunal rule amendment? Continuing the discussion from Potential reduction in paper hearings for CTO patients: I’ll be eating humble pie if I’ve interpreted it wrongly, but here’s the relevant extract from my MHLO summary of that SI: The int…	5	114	19 September 2025
Lawfulness of earlier first statutory referrals by the MOJ referral , status-change In Ministry of Justice, ‘Mental Health Casework Section stakeholder update’ (July 2025) it is explained that s37/41 restricted hospital order patients (or s45A hybrid order patients) who had previously been transferred u…	6	188	22 September 2025
About the Mental Health Tribunal category	0	184	21 July 2023
Tribunal on the last day of s2, can the panel consider criteria for s3?	5	153	10 September 2025
Would the Court of Appeal ever make a hospital order when the patient no longer meets the detention criteria?	0	71	9 September 2025
Time travel when the Court of Appeal impose a hospital order (when does it begin?)	0	62	9 September 2025
Timeframe from s2 application to hearing	2	57	9 August 2025
Tribunal's approach when RC supports deferred conditional discharge in absence of accommodation conditional-discharge	7	215	7 August 2025
Section 68(2) referral, then discharged on s7 Guardianship -- does the Tribunal retain jurisdiction? referral , status-change	4	98	1 August 2025
Scrambled tribunal decision	8	249	29 July 2025
Who's the responsible authority for private hospitals?	2	115	4 July 2025
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Rule 11(7)(a) and lack of express instructions	13	361	16 May 2025
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Rule 35 paper hearing and capacity	2	105	15 April 2025
Level 1 fee for client who does not engage	3	36	7 April 2025
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Tribunal reasons and victims victims	2	524	27 February 2025
Paper hearing of s3 reference after patient put on CTO referral	4	323	24 February 2025
Power of attorney and tribunal applications	8	183	24 February 2025
Scope of tribunal's power under s72 to recommend leave	3	180	22 February 2025
Reinstatement after r11(7)(b) appointment and withdrawal	2	91	22 February 2025
Requesting tribunal transcript for potential appeal	10	222	20 February 2025
Paper hearings following references for detained patients referral	6	252	28 January 2025
S37/41 Discharge to victim's address	2	467	9 December 2024
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Has the safeguard preventing consecutive detained patient paper hearings been affected by tribunal rule amendment?

Continuing the discussion from Potential reduction in paper hearings for CTO patients: I’ll be eating humble pie if I’ve interpreted it wrongly, but here’s the relevant extract from my MHLO summary of that SI: The int…

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114

19 September 2025

Lawfulness of earlier first statutory referrals by the MOJ

referral , status-change

In Ministry of Justice, ‘Mental Health Casework Section stakeholder update’ (July 2025) it is explained that s37/41 restricted hospital order patients (or s45A hybrid order patients) who had previously been transferred u…