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The Use of the Remand Provisions in the 1983 Mental Health Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Adrian Grounds
Adrian Grounds*
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Institute of Criminology, West Road, Cambridge
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The 1983 Mental Health Act introduced new powers for courts to remand mentally disordered defendants to hospital. The provisions came into operation in October 1984, and were preceded by a Ministerial statement that the new arrangements were becoming available because the Government believed.

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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 12 , Issue 4 , April 1988 , pp. 125 - 126
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