During the Cultural Revolution (1964-1976) strong political control governed diagnosis and treatment as well as detention and discharge of mental patients.

In international conventions governing detention, she said, considerable leeway is actually given to governments.

FROM THE DECISION By Chief Justice Rehnquist In the present case, the statutory provision at issue governs detention of deportable criminal aliens pending their removal proceedings.

The Excessive Bail Clause currently governs only federal pre-trial detention.

Following are excerpts from the government's response to a petition by lawyers for John Walker Lindh that he be released on bail pending his trial on charges of conspiring to kill Americans: By each of the critical factors that governs detention, John Phillip Walker Lindh should be detained pending trial.

The memorandum was also indicative of his central role as one of Mr. Bush's most trusted legal strategists on critical issues like the rules governing the capture, interrogation, detention and trials of terrorists.

Clearly, there need to be rules to govern detention, and the key rule - one that defines democracy itself - is that no one, citizen or otherwise, should be held without access to public review of his detention by independent judicial authorities.

There is nothing in the European arrest warrant that derogates from the application of the provisions of the national legal system and the European Convention on Human Rights in relation to the definition of conditions governing detention, which exist in the European Union Member States.

The Ontario HCCA is relevant to the Ontario Mental Health Act (MHA) because while the MHA governs detention in a psychiatric facility, the HCCA governs whether or not a person can be treated while in hospital (for example, with anti-psychotic medication that can reduce symptoms of serious mental illness such as schizophrenia).