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Rescinding responsibilities as nearest relative and displacing the nearest relative

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Fiona Cooke ,
Julia Watkins  and
Clive Adams
Fiona Cooke
Affiliation:
William Osier House, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 6DU;
Julia Watkins
Affiliation:
William Osier House, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 6DU;
Clive Adams*
Affiliation:
University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford OX3 7JX
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

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A case report is presented which highlights two important, but rarely evoked, aspects of mental health law. In this case, the mentally ill person's nearest relative did not wish to act as such and rescinded his responsibility in favour of another. This other person objected to the use of section 3 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and displacement of her as nearest relative was considered. Some cases from the literature are cited to help clarify the meaning of “unreasonable objection” as used in the Mental Health Act 1983.

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Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 18 , Issue 11 , November 1994 , pp. 665 - 667
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1994

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