This is one of those BLOG posts that I feel I’ve written before – but I keep getting queries and long email threads to read from various professionals who’ve clearly been engaged in an epic-email debrief of some previous  melodrama where everyone thought they were a barrister.  The questions relate to frustrations about how to […]

This post is mainly aimed at police officers and is intended to ram home what the term ‘sectioned’ means – every police officer in England and Wales needs to understand it, so they can adjust themselves accordingly, if necessary! … and if you know a police officer, please spend 60 seconds of your life in […]

It was in the Justice of the Peace Act 1361 that the foundations were laid for the common law complaint of a Breach of the Peace.  It is quite remarkable to comprehend that police officers today, dressed in kevlar and carrying CS incapacitant and in many cases a electronic stun device are still enacting powers […]