title: Lawfulness of preventive recall from a community treatment order.
abstract: Preventive recall to hospital of a patient on a community treatment order can be lawful when it is based on a convincing prediction that relapse in illness would otherwise occur. The legislation for England and Wales provides several indications that authorising preventive recall in those circumstances is a purpose of the community treatment order regime.
authors.affiliation: John Dawson, LLD, Faculty of Law, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand 9016. Email: john.dawson@otago.ac.nz.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dawson
mesh_terms: D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003156:Community Mental Health Services / Q000379:methods*; D004739:England; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006801:Humans; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D028701:Patient Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D011316:Preventive Psychiatry; D014852:Wales