Supervised Discharge

I spent some time recently in good company on my old policing patch where I worked as as sergeant – assisting with CPD for psychiatrists in Birmingham & Solihull and it was most agreeable. One of the other speakers – a solicitor I know who specialises in mental health law – grabbed me during a […]

Have You Heard of RAVE?!

I’ve had some very enjoyable days these last few months delivering CPD to AMHPs. I’ve covered the north-west of England and north Wales and then used a lunchbreak in one of them to jump in to some online CPD for AMHPs in the north-east of England, something which legal firm DAC Beachcroft have asked me […]

Warrants Attention

Early in the aftermath of the Nottingham attacks in June 2023, we learned VC was ‘wanted on warrant’ after failing to appear at a Magistrate’s Court in response to a summons. He had been accused of assaulting a police officer in September 2021 when a warrant under s135(1) of the Mental Health Act 1983 was […]