Baked In

The Mental Health Bill is now in the Committee Stage of the House of Commons and a group of fifteen MPs is scrutinising everything which has gone so far, to get the Bill ready for the Third (and final) reading in the House.  If it then passes, it becomes law after Royal Assent and we’ll […]

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What Lessons Learned?

Whenever we listen to families explaining what they want from investigations, inquiries or inquests after police contact deaths, we more often than not hear they just want “lessons to be learned” so other families don’t have to go through what they have been through.  Whenever we hear senior police officers (or senior people from non-police […]

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The Man on the Tube

You will no doubt have seen social media footage and / or mainstream media coverage of the case of a man on the London Underground who was subject to a use of force by members of the public.  I’m deliberately not widening distribution of that footage – it’s easy enough to find if you’re determined […]

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