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The European Court of Human Rights reviewed a case from Austria involving Rozalia Hiller, whose son M.K. had been involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital due to paranoid schizophrenia. While allowed on an authorized walk through the hospital grounds, M.K. escaped and committed suicide by jumping in front of a subway train. Hiller sued the hospital, arguing they were negligent by not adequately supervising M.K. given his history of escaping twice before. The hospital maintained that by the time of

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Marco Medini

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