Legislation

Section 44 – Committal to hospital under section 43

Introduction

This section allows the magistrates’ court to commit a person to hospital, rather than custody, pending the Crown Court’s decision whether to make an order under section 43. But this is only permitted where the approved clinician who would have overall responsibility for the person has given evidence that arrangements have been made for the […]

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