You may remember me posting at the end of last year about a High Court judgment ordering a new inquest after the death of Sally Mays in Hull in 2014?  The written judgment is now available to read and I think it’s interesting, not just for two particular reasons — It taught me even more […]

The Independent reporting today NHS mental health services are in a “desperate” situation, largely over access to beds when admission to hospital under the MHA is needed. This post need only be short – my reaction to reading this, frankly, was to wonder what has changed? I suspect it’s the frequency with which the situations […]

A number of questions in recent weeks about the types of location in which s136 MHA can be used.  — In one recent circumstance, a presenter asked this in a training setting and one attendee quite fairly and promptly came back with “anywhere other than a dwelling”.  It’s as good an answer to give, unless […]