Nottingham Sentencing

No doubt you will remember the appalling tragedies in Nottingham in summer of last year, where six people were attacked and three died – it lead the national news for a number of days as we learned two of the victims who were killed were University of Nottingham students on their way home from a […]

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The “Right” Care

If policing is not the correct response to mental health crisis and people deserve or are entitled to the “right” care, what is the “right” care – and who determines it? I’ve deliberately tried over the last twelve or more years or compiling this blog to avoid getting too abstract or philosophical about some of […]

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Present and Continuing

When Supreme Court Justice Lord Dyson gave the lead ruling in the case of Melanie Rabone, he was obliged to wrestle with a legal submission by an NHS trust about what an “immediate risk to life” was – and it took some considerable untangling and hasn’t been widely understood, in my view.  This question – […]

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