Let’s imagine this:  you join your new job and get trained.  It’s all very exciting, you’ve wanted to do little else apart from this your whole life. You start going to work and are asked to undertake one of your reasonably infrequent functions in a particular way.  You see it done like this countless times […]

If one were to stay up late one night, perhaps with your favourite whisky, some Eric Clapton records and a flip chart, with the intention of designing some legislation calculated to cause the maximum amount of ambiguity, frustration and difficulty, you would do well to come up with anything better than s136 Mental Health Act […]

The issue of how to manage offenders with mental disorders is an international issue – this blog is prompted by an article from NPR News in Washington DC, “How do you hold mentally ill offenders accountable?“, but I’m mindful of cases such as that of Garry David in Australia as well as an debates in […]