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It has been announced recently, the government will look to change the law around the payment of Universal Credit to certain mental health patients in hospital and it’s causing a considerable debate, especially in psychiatry. First things first: this proposal (£) does not affect patients “sectioned” under the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) who have […]


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It was always entirely necessary and appropriate for Craig Guildford to resign as Chief Constable of West Midlands Police following the Maccabi Tel Aviv debacle.  But this thing stopped being about football weeks ago – it became about the honesty, integrity and operational competence of that police service and it was found badly wanting, for […]


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I want to outline a truly interesting case not long ago determined in the Criminal Court of Appeal, Jenkins v R (2025) EWCA Crim 1657 because I would argue it tells us a lot in an easy-enough-to-follow case study about how the British criminal justice system deals with things where crime and mental disorder collide […]


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A press release by Simon Foster, the Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands was drawn to my attention yesterday regarding the Right Care, Right Person programme. It follows on from media coverage the scheme received by Times journalist Fiona Hamilton in September 2025 (with a subsequent follow-up piece in early November).  The PR […]


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Every New Year’s day I think about the birthday I will have NEXT year – ie, 2027.  I’m born quite late in the year, so it always makes me realise how old I’m getting to have to contemplate the sentence “Next year I’m X-yrs old!”  Not that’s it’s any of your business, but it’s fifty-three, […]


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