Man gets first court review in 16 years of hospital detention

A man with a mild intellectual disability and alcohol dependence syndrome, who is detained in a psychiatric hospital as a ward of court, is having his detention reviewed by the High Court for the first time in 16 years.

Such reviews are directed by the president of the High Court but did not happen regularly until the current president of the High Court, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, took over the wardship list in 2015.