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Substance Addiction (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 2017

Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction - Procedure

83: Court may dispense with hearing in certain circumstances

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"The court can decide without a hearing if no one wants to speak."

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The court can make a decision about your application without a formal hearing if it thinks no one wants to speak about it. You might not have to go to court and talk about your application if nobody else wants to say anything. The court gets to decide this if it is happy that nobody wants to be heard about your application.

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Part 2Assessment and treatment of persons suffering from severe substance addiction
Procedure

83Court may dispense with hearing in certain circumstances

  1. Despite any other provision of this subpart, the court may determine an application to which this subpart applies without a formal hearing if it is satisfied that no person wishes to be heard in respect of the application.