The Court of Appeal (criminal division) recently issued a judgement in R v Keal (2022), all focussing on the meaning of the word “wrong”, in the legal definition of insanity.  A little history for those who are not aware of the background: in the nineteenth century, the M’Naghten Rules defined what it means to be […]

I know I’m just one of thousands of people shocked to learn the terribly sad news that former Chief Constable of Leicestershire Police, Simon Cole QPM, had died suddenly. Mr Cole was found at his home in Leicestershire on Wednesday having retired from his position as Chief Constable only six days earlier. He was just […]

The BBC used Freedom of Information laws to secure access to a 2018 report by the Cabinet Office Implementation Unit about unlawful detention in police custody, for those of us who are deemed to require hospital admission under the Mental Health Act 1983. The report estimates that between 3,900 and 4,500 people were then unlawfully detained […]