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Hiller v. Austria: ECHR Judgment Summary by Marco Medini is a document available to read on EtoBox.
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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