Public authorities expressly includes courts and tribunals, it also includes anyone whose functions are of a public nature such as the police, Government Departments, state schools, local authorities etc. In Rabone v Pennine NHS Trust (2012) the parents of Ms Rabone argued that the Trust’s policies violated their daughters Right to Life (Art 2 ECHR). She was a known suicide risk and they should have assessed her, had they done so they could have detained her under the Mental Health Act 1983. She went to the doctors but they didn’t do anything, she went back and was prescribed tablets but wasn’t properly assessed. The ECtHR unanimously agreed.