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Proceeding contribution from Baroness Browning (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 19 June 2007. It occurred during Debate on bill on Mental Health Bill [Lords].

Mental Health Bill [Lords]

The point that I was making is that these matters come down to judgments on the part of clinicians. They will have those difficulties with or without the proposals. As my hon. Friend the Member for East Worthing and Shoreham (Tim Loughton) was saying, the idea of predicting with absolute certainty that, for example, somebody is going to go out and commit a homicide, having not done so before, is not credible. The Minister knows the figures; she has heard them from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. We would have to lock up and detain 5,000 people even to come close to finding one who just might do it.

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
461 c1309 
Session
2006-07
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Disability Alcoholic drinks Community care Autism Compulsorily detained psychiatric patients Dangerous psychiatric patients Culture Diagnosis Finance Homicide Drugs Discrimination Ethnic groups Mental illness Medical treatments Northern Ireland Mentally disordered offenders Police custody Mental capacity Misuse Patients' rights Psychiatric patients Mental health services Mental health Prescriptions Paedophilia Scotland Religion Victims Sexuality Right of search Suicide Political doctrines Secure psychiatric units Community treatment orders Behaviour disorders
Legislation
Mental Health Bill (HL) 2006-07
Link
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