What Happened to Seni’s Law?

Only last week I was asked whether I knew what had happened to Seni’s Law – for those who don’t know what this means, it was the campaigning name for new legislation which eventually became the Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018, named in memory of Seni Lewis who died in a south […]

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Sally Mays – a New Inquest

Earlier this week, the Divisional Court in London ruled a new inquest should be held after the death of Sally Mays, in 2014.  In 2015 the original inquest returned an extremely critical verdict amounting to neglect by Humber Teaching Foundation NHS (mental health) Trust which led to Sally’s death and it has now emerged relevant […]

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Birmingham Stabbings

Many will remember the report of a series of stabbings in Birmingham in September 2020 – Jacob Billington sadly died, killed at random and seven others were seriously injured in the course of other random attacks across the city centre area and a man was arrested in subsequent days, prosecuted for murder and a number […]

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