Doesn’t Lack Capacity

One year ago, Victor Osei killed his neighbour Anthony Higgins in a brutal attack. Having pleaded guilty to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, Mr Osei has been given a hospital order “without limit of time”, (presumably, a s37/41 restricted hospital order) and will be detained until such time as his psychiatrist and the […]

Risk Assessment

I’m all too wary of newspaper coverage of cases which have appeared in courtrooms. Having been directly involved in enough cases to know that coverage is necessarily partial, it often misses things which can be important to understanding what has occurred. In fairness to newspapers, they have a few hundred words to summarise hearings whose […]

Time

A month or so back, on Sunday nights, the BBC aired episodes of Jimmy McGovern’s “Time“, a drama about the prison system. It was the best television I’ve seen in years and I ended up watching all three episodes, as if it were a film. I’ve since re-watched it all and I hope it goes […]