This blog is a response to a post by Sarah Bellamy, author of ‘A Carer’s Eyes’.  Her post “If you leave, we’ll call the police” concerns her partner, Chris, and his experiences in Accident and Emergency.  (Sarah has also written a follow-up post.)  It’s all about the duty of care to A&E patients who have […]

This post is retrospectively dedicated to the memory of PC David Rathband who struggled so bravely to cope after life-altering physical but also mental injuries.  He died of those injuries in February 2012 having been shot whilst serving the area in which I was born and bred.  <<< Warning: this blog contains some very blunt […]

It has often been said when discussing problems within the Criminal Justice System that in reality, it is not a ‘system’ at all.  It is a collection of separate organisations – police, Crown Prosecutors, Courts, Prisons, Probation – who are ‘managed’ by different parts of Government (Home Office and Ministry of Justice) and who have […]