Admission status decides one thing — whether a person may walk out the door. Almost everything else survives it. Work the five cases: assign the legal status, then choose the lawful next action. Then run the rights board and mark what a court-ordered commitment actually removes. Most students are surprised.
Case 1 of 5
Step 1 · What is this person’s legal status?
Step 2 · The next action
A judge has ordered 30 days of inpatient treatment. Mark each right kept or removed.
Click a row to flip it between kept and removed. All ten must be set before you can check.
Status card
Legal status
Not yet assigned
How it starts
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May the person leave?
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May the person refuse treatment?
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Standard of proof
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Know the status and its expiry for every person on your unit, at every moment. That single fact governs whether someone may walk out the door and what lawfully happens if they try.
What just happened
Start with case one.
Read the case and assign the status. The criteria are always the same three: danger to self, danger to others, or grave disability arising from a mental disorder — and grave disability is not poverty and not an unconventional life.
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Status right
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Actions right
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Rights board
The three torts at this desk
False imprisonment
Unlawfully restricting freedom of movement — holding a voluntary patient who has properly requested discharge, or locking a door on someone with no legal hold.
Battery
Unconsented touching, including injecting a medication into a person who has refused it outside a true behavioural emergency.
Assault
The credible threat of that touching. “Take this or we will hold you down” can be assault even if nobody ever touches the person.
A tort lights up when an option you chose would have produced it.