Informal and Involuntary Mental Patients in England and Wales: a comparison in the light of Rabone'

Benjamin Andoh

doi:10.1177/0025802412473291

Informal and Involuntary Mental Patients in England and Wales: a comparison in the light of Rabone'

Benjamin Andoh

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Informal and involuntary (compulsorily detained) patients are the two broad categories of patients in psychiatric hospitals today. In Rabone v Pennine Care NHS Trust the Supreme Court made, among other things, a distinction between the two types of patients. This article contributes to the literature by adding to that distinction. It looks at the evolution of the term, ‘informal patient’, gives an account of Rabone case and then deals with the comparison between the two types of patients.

Original language	English
Article number	53
Pages (from-to)	213-218 (2 columns per page)
Number of pages	7
Journal	Medicine, Science and the Law
Volume	53
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0025802412473291
Publication status	Published - 2013

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