Controversial laws allowing people with untreatable personality disorders to be detained, even if they have not committed a crime, are to be revived.
The draft Mental Health Bill was axed by ministers in March after years of opposition.

But some of the key proposals are to be retained in an amending bill to be announced in the Queen's Speech.

Campaigners said the plans to update England's 23-year-old laws would represent an abuse of civil liberties.

The draft Mental Health Bill had proposed allowing people to face compulsory treatment even if their condition could not be treated. Under the plans, they would have been able to be held for 28 days before facing a tribunal.

The bill was first published in 2002 but redrafted several times among much opposition from campaigners, doctors, politicians and academics.

One of the main criticisms was that it made it too easy to detain people with some warning even those with mild conditions may be locked up.

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SOURCE: BBC News Online