Hunt: Law to be rushed through to deal with scandal

There is no suggestion that hospitalisation or detention of any patient has been clinically inappropriate, nor that the doctors so approved are anything other than properly qualified to make such recommendations, nor that these doctors might have made incorrect diagnoses or decisions about the treatment patients need.

All the proper clinical processes were gone through when these patients were detained.

We believe no-one is in hospital who shouldn't be, and no patients have suffered because of this.

He said doctors recommending patients to be locked up would not have known they had not been properly approved to make such recommendations.

They acted in good faith.