# Tribunal applications in first six months of hospital order

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**Created:** [24 August 2021 22:20 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/tribunal-applications-in-first-six-months-of-hospital-order/593 "2021-08-24T22:20:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [26 August 2021 22:32 UTC](https://forum.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/t/tribunal-applications-in-first-six-months-of-hospital-order/593/4 "2021-08-26T22:32:49Z")

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The idea that a court’s decision to impose a hospital order itself satisfies the right in Art5(4) to “take proceedings” - at least for a period - is founded on the decision of the ECtHR in De Wilde, Oms and Versyp v Belgium (2832/66 etc), see in partic para 76.

[http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-57606](http://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng?i=001-57606)

As I recall, that’s the basis on which the six month exclusion rule for Pt 3 patients has been justified to date.

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