In what a lawyer for the plaintiff characterizes as “a forceful ruling,” Ontario’s Court of Appeal found “no evidence” that a plaintiff ever agreed to medication, or was unable to weigh her concerns about side effects against the proposed benefit of medication. The court also found that the psychiatrist who ordered the involuntary drugging could not justify the decision to re-categorize her psychosis as schizophrenia, and that there was no evidence to support the assertion that without treatment the psychosis would continue.
Posted on: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 21:10:24 +0000
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