treatment as an object and thus violates his/her dignity. After the judgment, the applicable regulations were changed. Starting from January 2018: • a person (also a legally incapacitated one) admitted to a social care home may apply to a guardianship court for reversing the decision on his/her placement in the home; • a person who does not consent to his/her further stay in a social care home may apply to a guardianship court for annulment of the decision on his/her placement there; • the obligation to hear the legally incapacitated person who is to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital or a social care home has been provided for in the relevant parliamentary act; • in order to provide additional and full legal protection to persons with mental disorders or intellectual disabilities, who are admitted to social care homes or psychiatric hospitals without their consent, the relevant is required to appoint ex-officio a lawyer or legal advisor, even without an application submitted to this end; • if a person is admitted to a social care home without his/her consent but with the consent of his/her legal representative, a guardianship court’s judgment is required. Persons admitted under this procedure should undergo mental health examinations at least once per six months. THE ABOVE-MENTIONED AMENDMENTS ARE IN LINE WITH THE POSTULATES THAT HAD BEEN RAISED BY THE COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS FOR MANY YEARS. 30 PART II – how does the NMPT work?