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Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003

644.If an appeal succeeds, the appellate court must either substitute its own decision for that of the Tribunal (where it is possible on the established facts to do so) or remit the case back to the Tribunal for consideration afresh (subsection (5)). Where a case is remitted, the court may make directions that the Tribunal now to consider the case must be differently constituted from the original Tribunal and such other matters about the consideration of the case as it considers appropriate (subsection (6)).

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