hospital order

hospital order (plural hospital orders)

1. A court order requiring an offender who is found not guilty by reason of insanity to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital.
   • 2002, Robert Harris, David Webb, Mentally Disordered Offenders: Managing People Nobody Owns, →ISBN:

     Where hospital orders were made, direct admission to hospital from the court was arranged if possible.

   • 2008, Great Britain. Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety Department of Health, Reference Guide to the Mental Health Act 1983, →ISBN, page 55:

     Patients admitted to hospital under a hospital order without a restriction order are treated largely the same as patients detained on the basis of an application for admission for treatment under section 3.

   • 2014, John Gunn, Pamela Taylor, Forensic Psychiatry: Clinical, Legal and Ethical Issues, →ISBN:

     In the case of an offender who is subject to an interim hospital order the court may make a hospital order without his being brought before the court if he is represented by an authorised person who given an opportunity of being heard.