“…ssion, Mr Feehan relies on the decisions of Cazalet J in A Metropolitan Borough Council v DB [1997] 1 FLR 767 and Wall J in Re C (Detention: Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FLR 180. In the present case, the regime at N House as described by the service manager clearly amounted to accommodation “provided for the purpose of restricting libe…”
“…In Re C (Detention: Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FLR 180, an application was made for an order under the inherent jurisdiction in respect of a 16-year-old girl suffering from anorexia nervosa. Wall J held that the co…”
“…dly has power to authorise the use of restraint and physical force to compel a child to submit to a surgical procedure: see Re C (Detention: Medical Treatment) [1997] 2 FLR 180 and Re PS (Incapacitated or Vulnerable Adult)[2007] EWHC 623 (Fam),[2007] 2 FLR 1083. I say nothing about how this power should appropriately be exercised in t…”
“…hat it is important for the High Court to adhere as closely as possible to the statutory scheme in these cases: this very point was also made by Wall J in Re C [1997] 2 FLR 180.…”