More Ways to Misuse “Capacity”

There’s an awful lot going on at the moment, it’s genuinely hard to keep pace with it all – this time, arising from the controversial video from Northamptonshire Police which led to the Court of (Criminal) Appeal finding the Chief Constable of Northamptonshire in contempt of court, fining the force £50,000 in a legally unprecedented […]

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Tramlines, Not Guidelines

Lisa Taylor-Penny died in 2025 after self-injury and the inquest into her death concluded in Cheshire with a very sad narrative verdict just a few months ago. Yesterday, His Majesty’s Coroner published a new Preventing Future Deaths (PFD) report after concerns were caused arising from the application of the Right Care, Right Person programme. This […]

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Lessons Learned?

His Majesty’s Coroner for Lincolnshire has issued a new Preventing Future Death report after the death in 2021 of Mr Robert GRACEY.  As many of you know, I’m reading a lot of PFD notices at the moment because my ongoing research is examining them and Mr Gracey’s case became the 157th PFD I’ve found for […]

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