Type: Judgment

Authority: National Courts England and Wales High Court

Date: 07/14/2021

Subject: The decision of the England and Wales High Court, in which the Court denies the request by the competent health authority to extend the length of the internment of a minor with serious mental disability, since the treatment was brutal and humiliating and not in his best interest

Parties: Wigan Metropolitan Borough Council - and - W -and- N -and- Y (By his Children’s Guardian) -and- Wrightington Wigan & Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust And Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Original language: English

Classification: Dignity - Art. 4 Inhuman treatments - Degrading treatments - Freedoms - Art. 6 Personal liberty

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