Another post on some recent case-law that arises from an incident which was nothing to do with policing and mental health.  However, upon learning of it strikes me as very relevant to the way in which officers use their Common Law power to prevent a breach of the Queen’s Peace.  I submit that all officers […]

I’ve been thinking since the weekend about the recent judgment of Webley v St George’s (2014) the subject of my most recent post.  I’ve come back to it again because the more I’ve thought about it, the more it raises a whole host of problems of a legal and practical kind. I want to explore […]

The police were called in April 2010 to the home of Mark WEBLEY in London.  During the incident, he appeared agitated and threatened police officers with furniture before then climbing on to a window ledge, with the appearance that he would try to jump.  Officers restrained him to prevent him harming himself, he was arrested for […]