Australia, May 14 -- New South Wales Land and Environment Court issued text of the following judgement:
1. BASTEN AJA: The applicant, KP, [1] seeks leave to challenge a decision of the Mental Health Review Tribunal (Tribunal) revoking an order made by the Tribunal on 17 November 2023 which provided for his conditional release from Bloomfield Hospital, where he had been detained as a forensic patient. The proposed appeal is limited to a question of law which may be shortly identified as whether the Tribunal had power to revoke its release order for breach of a condition of release where it had not made an order for KP's apprehension pursuant to s 109 of the Mental Health and Cognitive Impairment Forensic Provisions Act 2020 (NSW) (Forensic ...