Significance

Question 1

HL CASE SIGNIFICANCE

Answer 1

It’s an example of how the domestic court fail to protect the interests of vulnerable people.

And while uk was already in the process of enacting mental capacity act 2005 , it did not provide a formal procedure to review detention as required by this case. Instead deprivation of liberty safeguard (Dols) were enacted- the worst thing about that is that L would not have met the tiniest eligibility criteria under that new act which questions the effectiveness and even point of this provision.