COMPULSORY ADMISSION TO HOSPITAL (OPINION) and order that is neither proven nor current. While we are entitled to insist that practitioners give the necessary medical assurances, we are also entitled to expect the authorities to establish the risk they are invoking in order to justify an ongoing deprivation of liberty. 9/ In these conflicts involving medical practitioners, patients, the authorities and the protection of third parties, the legal authority should play its part to a greater extent. At minimum, therefore, it is desirable that in the event of an administrative disagreement between the medical profession and the administrative authority, the competent court should pronounce judgment, in which case the prison governor would be required to refer the matter to court without any formalities. 83

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