On 23rd April 2022, the family of Rachel Jones took her to A&E at East Surrey Hospital due to suicidal thoughts and superficial self-injury. She was assessed under the Mental Health Act (MHA) at East Surrey on 26th April 2022 and having been subsequently detained under s2 MHA, was transferred to Langley Green Hospital in Sussex.  […]

An inquest in Northern Ireland is has spent the last few weeks wading its way through the very sad events which led to a double killing in Portadown in 2017.  Thomas McEntee pleaded guilty in 2018 to the manslaughter of Michael and Marjorie Cawdery on the grounds of diminished responsibility and was sentenced to ten […]

I recently received an enquiry about a legal question I’ve probably assumed was taken for granted, but which may be worth covering: it relates to processes at a Place of Safety where someone has been arrived there after a warrant was issued under s135(1) Mental Health Act (MHA), rather than because of police use of […]