Alex Ruck Keene KC (Hon) is a practising barrister, a visiting professor of law at King’s College, London and was the legal advisor to the 2018 Mental Health Act review.  It’s fair to say he knows his mental health and capacity law onions and has had opportunity to demonstrate this in all the courts of […]

The Chief Constable of Police Scotland recently appeared before the Justice Committee of the Scottish Parliament and her comments about mental health demands and body worn video led to coverage in the “1919” magazine, a publication funded by the Scottish Police Federation. Specifically, Chief Constable Jo Farrell said the impending roll-out of body worn video […]

It’s 5am and I’ve been awake for a couple of hours, unable to get back to sleep … so I’ve put the coffee on and decided to start writing and this time it’s about “the system” we hear so much about.  Last night I was reading a number of articles and the social media comments […]