NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED
OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE
5.
General Observation
Health Care Unit III
14
630,4
6.
General Observation
Health Care Unit IV
32
748,5
7.
Women and Children's
Special Observation
Care Unit.
17
669
Total in specialised psychiatry:
149
800,9
Admissions and General
Psychiatry Unit
421
29,5
570
231,2
8.
Total inpatient:
77
Ministry of Health data, received 23 June 2022
Criminal proceedings become a process of applying
compulsory medical treatment measures, if during the
pre-trial investigation or during the hearing of the case
in court, it is established that a person is not criminally
responsible or is partly criminally responsible, or after the
commission of the criminal act develop a mental health
condition rendering them incapable of understanding the
nature of their actions or controlling them.
It is important to note that sending a person for a
forensic psychiatric examination is only allowed if there
is sufficient evidence to show that the person in question
has committed the very act prohibited by the criminal law
under investigation.97
Article 396(1) of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Republic of
Lithuania, 2002, No. IX-785. Available at: https://bit.ly/3tMjRdy.
97
Select target paragraph3
Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents