ECT: Injunction to suspend therapy
The plaintiff suffers from chronic treatment resistant schizophrenia. The Mental Health Review Tribunal authorised a course of electroconvulsive therapy, and the plaintiff underwent 3 of the 12 sesssions allowed for.
The plaintiff, by her father, complained that she should not have to undergo the further treatment and obtained a short term ex parte injunction to suspend the therapy but did not appeal against the decision of the Mental Health Review Tribunal.
ZLF v South Western…
