Legislation

Section 37 – Powers of courts to order hospital admission or guardianship

Introduction

This section empowers criminal courts (Crown Court and magistrates’ court) to order a convicted person’s admission to hospital or guardianship, as an alternative to most criminal justice disposals including imprisonment. However, this is not permitted in the case of persons convicted of murder. Since there is no underlying prison sentence, the patient’s future discharge is […]

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