It’s hard to predict when the Home Office are going to release their latest statistics on section 136 Mental Health Act 1983.  The newest batch came out today 6th Nov ’25, the last lot in Sep ’24 and prior to that, Feb ’24 … I don’t like surprises, not least because I’ve spent the last […]

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Perhaps you will be aware the Times newspaper covered a story in September about Right Care, Right Person, emphasising the stories of Sophie Cotton, Robin Woolforth and Ricki Gillatt and giving their relatives’ perspectives on inquests for two of them, which heard the police should have responded to 999 calls made – Robin’s inquest is […]

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It’s hard to know how to contact or potentially influence His Majesty’s Coroners without writing to them all individually, which then means you’re either writing in very general terms or your writing to them about cases for which you inevitably don’t know the full details.  But I nevertheless think there’s something emerging in my mind […]

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