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NHS trust ordered to pay damages for breach of Article 2 in failing to prevent detained patient from committing suicide

  • Mills & Reeve LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • May 21 2010

Some of you may recall the decision of the House of Lords in Savage (Claimant) v South Essex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Defendant) in December 2008 when, in the context of a possible failure to prevent a suicide, the nature and scope of the Defendant Trust's obligation under Article 2 (right to life) of the European Convention of Human Rights was considered