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Court of Appeal allows appeal from High Court, and grants a declaration that a decision by the Mental Health Tribunal to affirm a renewal order in respect of the detention of an involuntary patient under the mental health legislation was in breach of the Tribunal's duty to give reasons, on the grounds that: (a) notwithstanding that the patient had since been released, the matter was not moot, where there was a subsisting claim for damages; (b) although the expert evidence suggested that the patient did not have sufficient insight to keep taking medication on release, the patient's own evidence was that he would take his medication; and (c) the Tribunal had to give any reasons for rejecting the patient's own evidence on the issue.
Mental health - renewal order - whether sufficient reasons given when Mental Health Tribunal expressed its conclusions re renewal order - order dated 25 January 2021 authorising detention as involuntary patient for six-month period - history of paranoid schizophrenia - admission in 2019 - series of renewal orders - judicial review - affirmation of renewal order - dissent from decision by one member of tribunal - reports before tribunal - subsequent discharge of applicant - whether proceedings moot - whether reasons adequate.
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