Hunger Strikes and the State's Right to "Force Feed": Recent Australian Experience

• Main Author: FINDLAY, Mark
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1984
• Subjects: Prisons; Common law; Prisoners; Plaintiffs; Defendants; Suicide; Hunger; Legal duty; Food; Medical treatment; Australia; Australian Studies; Criminal Procedure; Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2061; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4013/viewcontent/HungerStrikesRightForceFeed_19IrishJurist.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Whether or not it is the nature of the protest itself which makes it unsuitable for resolution in a court-room situation, the case law relating to "hunger strikes" (and State's response) is both sparse and insignificant. Perhaps on the basis of its uniqueness alone, the case of Schnei...