A new Preventing Future Deaths report from Greater Manchester is worth considering, following the sad death of Mr Michael Heath in August 2023. It was only issued this week following conclusion of an Article 2, jury inquest which examined Mr Heath’s suicide after a history of mental health contact and, crucially, emergency services contact in […]

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A couple of weeks ago I attended a free legal seminar in Birmingham put on by Weightman’s, a top law firm who have a number of lawyers specialising in mental health and capacity law.  It speaks to their experience they decided to pay for two barristers and also gave up two of their own solicitors […]

Read More Section 136 at the Prison Gate

The Home Office has caught us all unawares this year with very early publication of their police powers data, which includes use of s136 of the Mental Health Act 1983. It normally comes towards the end of the calendar year but the last data took until after the New Year to publish.  It came out […]

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