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Courts to alert patients to orders requiring disclosure of medical records

 
The High Court has decided that a Crown Court judge acted unlawfully when he ordered an NHS trust to hand over the psychiatric records of a 14-year-old girl to the man who was accused of sexually abusing her.

The High Court determined that the action was unlawful, as it did not allow the girl sufficient time to make representations that disclosure of her records should not occur.

Full story in bjhc&im October 2006 (357 words)

 

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