Requested reviews

Patients and other interested people can complete an application form to ask the Tribunal to review some orders.  The Tribunal will then schedule a hearing to review the order.  These are ‘requested reviews’ (s 390).

The orders you can ask the Tribunal to review are:

• involuntary treatment orders, to decide whether the patient still needs the order (s 390(1)(a));
• inpatient treatment orders, to decide whether the patient still needs the order (s 390(1)(b));
• community treatment orders, to decide whether the terms of the order are appropriate (s 390(1)(c));
• orders authorising transfer of patients to or between authorised hospitals (s 390(1)(d));
• orders transferring patient responsibility between supervising psychiatrists (s 390(1)(e));
• orders transferring patient responsibility between treating practitioners (s 390(1)(f)); and
• orders transferring certain inpatients interstate (s 390(1)(g)).

The Tribunal can also review these orders on its own initiative (s 391).

If you have applied to review an involuntary treatment order, you may also apply to suspend the operation of the order or to restrain action under the order under s 392 until the review hearing can be heard by the Tribunal.