Member

I described the concept of serious harm as the “fulcrum” for decisions to detain a person under the Act. However, it is of course only a part of that fulcrum because, as we will see from the amendments tabled by the noble Baroness, Lady Murphy, in the third group we will be debating today, the other element integral to such decisions is a judgment around risk. I will not pre-empt the debate we will have when we get to the third group, but I will make a couple of points about my Amendment 23, which addresses a slightly different aspect of the risk issue.