Legislation

Section 41 – Power of higher courts to restrict discharge from hospital

Introduction

This section allows the Crown Court, when it makes a hospital order, also to make a restriction order to impose additional controls on what are considered to be high risk offenders. The magistrates’ court cannot impose a restriction order but it can commit a patient to the Crown Court where it thinks a restriction order […]

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