HMCTS, 'Minimum requirements for tribunal hearings to be held in hospitals' (11/4/18)

Requirements imposed on hospitals This document states that "[a] hearing room is as essential to a psychiatric hospital as an operating theatre is to a surgical hospital" and that if hospitals do not adhere to the minimum requirements or obtain a written exemption then the tribunal "may consider holding its judicial hearings elsewhere". The main headings are (1) Minimum standards of safety and security, and (2) Minimum requirements for facilities and amenities. Superseded by Mental Health Tribunal, 'Minimum security requirements and amenities for tribunal hearing rooms in hospitals' (June 2022).

See also

• Mark Hinchliffe and Zoe Blake, 'Letter to all Hospitals regarding our Minimum Requirements' (11/4/18) - covering letter

Previous versions

• This supersedes HMCTS, 'Room Specification Recommendations for Tribunal Hearings' (March 2012).

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Type: Tribunal guidance🔍

Title: Minimum requirements for tribunal hearings to be held in hospitals

Organisation: HM Courts and Tribunals Service🔍

Date: 11/4/18🔍

What links here:

• Mental Health Tribunal
• Mark Hinchliffe and Zoe Blake, 'Letter to all Hospitals regarding our Minimum Requirements' (11/4/18)
• Mental Health Tribunal, 'Minimum security requirements and amenities for tribunal hearing rooms in hospitals' (June 2022)