This post is not really about mental health, but mental capacity and more importantly still, the legal assessment of capacity to take decisions.  Like me, you may have followed the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill which is now before the House of Commons and is separately passing through the Scottish Parliament.  I admit […]

The Mental Health Bill (about which I’m increasingly worried) has now reached Committee stage in the House of Commons and will be considered in detail before returning for the third reading, which will be the final vote before it will be presented, if passed, to His Majesty for Royal Assent. You will remember, during the bill’s passage through the House […]

Beryl Purdy obviously was a much loved, valued relative, friend and neighbour – she was a church warden in her village for over 20-years and lived with her husband of 60-years, Peter.  She died in March 2023 after David Parish broke in to her home and attacked her.  At the time, Mr Parish had absconded […]