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Canada
Autopsy of an Autopsy of an Ontario Schizophrenic, November, 2007.
Don Weitz Acceptance Speech for Award in Advocacy from the Mental Health Legal Committee, in Toronto, April 27, 2007.
British Columbia
Ontario Human Rights Commission rules inquests must be held for inpatient deaths.
VGH detained and drugged man against his will: Judge finds patient was committed without proper paperwork, August 27, Vancouver on Canada.com
Stephen Mullins v. Dr. John Mark Levy, et al, Reasons for Judgment The Supreme Court of B.C. awarded Stephen Mullins $15,000 damages and costs for false arrest, false imprisonment and assault. The Court found that, suffering a panic attack brought on by family deaths and business pressures and going to VGH for help, Stephen was wrongfully seized and beaten by VGH security people, locked in a prison-like cell and drugged to unconsciousness without being examined by doctors who signed false Certificates after he was detained and imprisoned. Unfortunately the trial judge rejected arguments that Stephen's constitutional rights were breached by the precipitate and negligent acts of the defendants. In effect, bank robbers, child rapists and murderers have more rights than honest, law-abiding citizens who suffer emotional upset or more serious mental illness. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms purports to require that everyone who is detained or imprisoned be informed of the reason for the seizure and of the right to talk to a lawyer and he must promptly be given the means of calling a lawyer. (Description taken from an e-mail by his lawyer.)
Ontario
In Starsky v Swayze, the appeals court ruled Ontario Review Board improperly force drugged Starson.
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