It’s hard to know how to contact or potentially influence His Majesty’s Coroners without writing to them all individually, which then means you’re either writing in very general terms or your writing to them about cases for which you inevitably don’t know the full details.  But I nevertheless think there’s something emerging in my mind […]

His Majesty’s Coroner for Manchester North has last week issued a Preventing Future Death report to the College of Policing and the “RCRP Strategic Board” after the death of a woman by suicide in Manchester. Katie Overd was a vulnerable woman in her 40s who was usually housebound as a wheelchair user.  She had a […]

The Mental Health Bill 2025, introduced to the House of Lords last autumn, has now completed its passage through the House of Commons, having had its third reading earlier this week.  It now returns to the House of Lords for some final “ping-pong” so it’s not quite over yet. I’ve always been focussing on the […]