The Right Care, Right Person programme has turned up in a highly unexpected place – the appeal of a British citizen against extradition from the United Kingdom to the Republic of Ireland to face criminal prosecution.  This post will be brief, not least because leading barrister Alex Ruck-Keene KC has already published a comprehensive post […]

The first King’s Speech of the new Parliament contained prominent mention of a new Mental Health Bill – something which was entirely absent from the previous King’s Speech in late 2023.  This is not new news – it pledges to continue the process of mental health law reform which most relevantly began when Professor Sir […]

There is so much bouncing around on Acute Behavioural Disturbance, including on this website where I have done various blogs, links to Preventing Future Death reports, publications from various medical and healthcare Royal Colleges and other bodies, that even I’ve become fed up using my own website to find stuff when I want it! So […]