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The pattern of delays in Mental Health Review Tribunals

Department of Psychological Medicine, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS

Mental Health Review Tribunals (MHRTs) are intended to protect the liberty of the detained patient. In practice, however, they have been said to fall short of providing this safeguard. This is frequently for administrative reasons. We report a systematic examination of the pattern of delays in holding MHRTs. Our main finding is that delay cannot be attributed to a single factor but rather reflects the inherent complexity of some cases.

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