NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 81 participants shared during the interview that they in fact rejected the proposal to have a forensic psychiatric examination in the past due to the negative reputation, which the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital had at the time related to over-medicalisation of patients (Interview No. 7).103 Nevertheless, under the current legal framework, a person's consent is not required for an inpatient forensic psychiatric examination and the court decides whether it is appropriate to order one. The person who is the subject of proceedings for compulsory medical measures acquires a new procedural status, different from that of a suspect or accused person. The Code of Criminal Procedure does not oblige the court or the public prosecutor to inform the person of the forensic psychiatric expert's report, nor to inform him/ her of the referral of the case to trial: according to Article 399(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the judge is obliged to inform the legal representatives of the person concerned or the members of his/her family or next-ofkin, as well as the defence and the public prosecutor of this fact, and to order the summoning of witnesses, the victims and the experts. It can be concluded that further pre-trial investigation and proceedings take place in the absence of such a person.104 He or she may exercise the following rights in the proceedings: Quote from one of the semi-structured interviews. Stankūnaitė J. (2008) Priverčiamųjų medicinos priemonių taikymo procesas: teorinės ir praktinės problemos. 103 104