Test Case: Mr C

by Philip Palmer

In 1993 an inmate with schizophrenia at Broadmoor, Harold, developed gangrene in his foot and was transferred to a hospital where the decision was taken to amputate. Harold disagreed and set in motion a landmark legal case in the high court that was to enshrine the test of mental capacity in the 2005 Mental Capacity Act.

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First published February 4, 2014

About the author

I started writing when I was 14 and wrote a short story for the school magazine about a bank robber who is killed during a heist and goes to Heaven - can't get through the Pearly Gates, and has to break in. Nicely synthesising all the genres I still love to mash up...!

I wrote five 'widescreen' high-octane high concept SF novels for Orbit Books, including DEBATABLE SPACE and VERSION 43 - blending satire with action with lashings of dark humour.

Now I am writing for film and television as well as writing prose. My recent books include MORPHO, published by NewCon Press and HELL ON EARTH, a fantasy epic about demons and cops.

My most recent book is THE GREAT WEST WOOD, a fantasy set in the fictional suburb of Westood - an urban village which is full of magic . There's crime, there's murder, and there's even a floating boy - because in Westwood, anything is possible...