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• Section 47--Assault on or Protection of the Freedom of the Individual? a Short Response to Greaves 

  Gray, J.A. Muir (1991-12)

  Section 47 of the 1948 National Assistance Act allows incompetent people, usually old people, to be removed from their homes. It can be considered as a repressive tool, designed to infringe personal liberty, but in this ...