7 May 2001
In re Patient O
- Citation
- In re Patient O
- Court
- District Court
- Case number
- DCMP959/2001
Section 36 is procedural and does not itself create liability to detention; a patient detained under sections 31 or 32 for short-term observation is not, by that fact alone, a patient "liable to be detained" under s36, so the Form 7 in respect of Patient O was misconceived and s36 procedure could not properly be invoked absent statutory liability or guardian-given consent.