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30 November 2006

Module 4: Mental Health Tribunals

If a legal representative has obtained consent from a patient to look at his/her file prior to a tribunal - should this be done in private or does the patient have the right to review the file with the legal representative?

Once the legal representative has obtained written permission to access patients file he /her is entitled to do so. This consent is only for the legal representative to view the files. The issue of the patient reviewing his/her notes is another matter. If the patient wants to view his/her files the normal procedure for a patient to access his/her file under freedom of information would be required.