2023-01-14 Provision of tribunal reasons to victims
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14/01/23: Provision of tribunal reasons to victims — A High Court decision has required the Mental Health Tribunal in England (and by extension the MHRT for Wales) to change how it deals with requests for provision of reasons to victims. The previous blanket policy of refusal was unlawful; the further refusal decision made during the JR proceedings was also unlawful, and had failed to engage with the purpose of the open justice principle; and a refusal to provide a gist of the reasons when the Parole Board would provide this in similar circumstances is unlawful discrimination. See Maher v First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health) [2023] EWHC 34 (Admin).
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