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Thu 03 Mar 2011Court rules on severely disturbed patient
A severely disturbed man, whom experts agree is not mentally ill within the meaning of mental health laws, is to be brought from a British care unit to be detained at the Central Mental Hospital following an apparently unique High Court decision
Mr Justice George Birmingham’s ruling in the case of the 25-year-old man, “a person of unsound mind not so found” who was placed in care at the age of eight, was today described by lawyers for the HSE as “one of the most significant in adult disability cases in the history of the State”.
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