A few years ago the Ministry of Justice lost track of a patient, then published a new policy that all conditionally discharged patients were to have a residence condition containing an address, and that the MOJ would add one if the tribunal had not (see Colin Harnett, ‘Changing discharge conditions - residence’ (Dear Colleague letter from Head of Mental Health Casework Section, 17/12/15)).
Is that policy still in force, or do they have a different way of keeping track of patients now? We had a case at work recently where the tribunal removed an existing residence condition, and the same thing happened in DA v Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust [2021] UKUT 101 (AAC).