Due process in eligibility decision-making

Masterman-Lister v Jewell & anr [2002] EWCA Civ 1889

In 1980 the claimant suffered brain damage following a serious road traffic accident. In September 1987 the claimant accepted a settlement of £70,000. In 1992 following a consultation with a consultant in neuropsychiatric rehabilitation, the claimant became aware that there was a possibility that he ought to have been categorised as a ‘patient’ under s94(2) […]

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Ealing District Health Authority, ex parte Fox [1993] 3 All ER 170 (QBD)

A district health authority was under a mandatory duty under s 117 of the 1983 Act to provide after-care services for any person to whom the section applied and was therefore under a duty to make practical arrangements for after-care prior to a patient’s discharge from hospital, where such arrangements were required by a mental

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