The website of the Office of Chief Coroner has been updated and is now available for use — The transition from the old site to the new meant many recent Preventing Future Death reports were delayed in their publication, but they are now available online, along with all the historic reports which have migrated across […]

You may have seen news coverage where police officers present in Westminster Hall whilst Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth lay in state, had to intervene when a man approached the coffin.  He was arrested and subsequently charged with two offences under the Public Order Act 1986, including s4A of the Act.  This is an offence of […]

I blogged a few months ago about the Penrose Hypothesis – the idea that there is a correlation in society between any reduction in the inpatient bed provision and the subsequent incarceration in prison of mentally unwell defendants around a decade later.  This hypothesis was first proposed by Professor Lionel Penrose in the 1930s but […]