Inquest’s Digital Archive

The charity Inquest has been digitalising its archive and history over the last few years and today, we get to see their new website which offers access to it. The archive itself sits at the Bishopgate Institute in east London and researchers can visit and access the material and you can search the Institute’s Inquest […]

Section 47/49 AWOLs

Here’s one for you: what are the legalities around a section 47/49 MHA patient failing to return from authorised leave? – what power exists to re-detain them and would a warrant be required to enter premises in order to do so? First things first: I don’t think I’ve ever thought about or heard before of […]

Brian Ringrose

I spent February 2021 engaged as an expert witness in a police contact death inquest which was sitting in Milton Keynes – the inquest after the death of Leon Briggs in Bedfordshire in 2013. When those proceedings concluded, His Majesty’s Senior Coroner for Bedfordshire requested a discussion with me to help formulate the Preventing Future […]