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Fri 10 Oct 2008Decision reserved over patient's detention
THE HIGH Court has reserved judgment on a challenge by a woman with a long history of mental illness to an order under which she remains detained against her will in a Dublin psychiatric hospital.
The case has significant implications for current practices relating to the making of orders relating to the detention of people in psychiatric hospitals.
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