‘A Royal Marine jailed for shooting an injured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan has had his murder conviction reduced to manslaughter by an appeal court.’
BBC News, 15th March 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A custody sergeant and two detention officers have been found not guilty of killing a man with mental health problems in police custody.’
The Independent, 14th March 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The Department for Work and Pensions has told its disability benefits assessors to discriminate against people with mental health conditions compared to those with physical problems.’
The Independent, 14th March 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘One of the country’s best known private health clinics has been rated “inadequate” for safety by inspectors.’
BBC News, 14th March 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘People with dementia and learning difficulties are being detained in care without checks due to a ‘failing’ law, the Law Commission has said.’
BBC News, 13th March 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A mental health trust is to be the first NHS provider to be prosecuted under legislation brought in after the Mid Staffs scandal.’
The Guardian, 6th March 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘An Army widow who suffered five miscarriages after her husband attacked her while suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has launched a legal case against the Ministry of Defence for failing them both.’
Daily Telegraph, 26th February 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘I’m not a vindictive person by nature. But when I attended Vishnu’s funeral after mentoring him through so many highs and lows, I wanted the judges who had sent him to Wormwood Scrubs to be there.’
The Independent, 24th February 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Imagine receiving instructions from a client that his mother has died intestate but that a sibling had taken the property (the principal asset of the estate) and was not prepared to sell the property and share the proceeds of sale 50 / 50.’
Hardwicke Chambers, 17th February 2017
Source: www.hardwicke.co.uk
‘British prisons are holding child inmates in solitary confinement in an alleged breach of UN torture rules and British law, The Independent has found. Lawyers in one case have launched legal action against the Government in the High Court.’
The Independent, 21st February 2017
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Moors murderer Ian Brady has been refused permission to launch a high court battle to get a lawyer of his choice to represent him at a tribunal.’
The Guardian, 20th February 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Rapists, armed robbers, arsonists… At Bethlem Royal Hospital, medical teams try to rehabilitate some of Britain’s most violent, mentally ill patients. The Telegraph gets a rare glimpse of the secure wards.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th February 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Ian Brady, the Moors murderer, is launching a “totally unique” High Court fight for the right to have the lawyer of his choice representing him at a tribunal.’
Daily Telegraph, 14th February 2017
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Prisons in England and Wales need a “profound culture change” which focuses on inmate safety, a new report says.’
BBC News, 13th February 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man who admitted killing a US tourist and wounding five others in a rampage in central London last year has been handed an unlimited hospital order.’
BBC News, 7th February 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A jury has been sworn in for an inquest into the death of Olaseni Lewis, six and a half years after he died following prolonged restraint by 11 police officers at a psychiatric hospital in south London.’
The Guardian, 6th February 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘London Borough of Hackney v Haque [2017] EWCA Civ 4. In which the Court of Appeal grapple with the application of the Public Sector Equality Duty to decisions on suitability of accommodation provided under s.193 Housing Act 1996 (in satisfaction of the full housing duty).’
Nearly Legal, 24th January 2017
Source: www.nearlylegal.co.uk
‘The Ministry of Justice has launched an internal inquiry into the mental health backgrounds of prisoners who killed themselves, as new figures are expected to reveal that 2016 was a record high for self-inflicted deaths across prisons in England and Wales.’
The Guardian, 25th January 2017
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The criminal justice system “did too little to protect” a vulnerable inmate who electrocuted himself in prison, the Prisons Ombudsman has found.’
BBC News, 23rd January 2017
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘More than a decade has passed since the Mental Capacity Act (‘MCA’) received royal assent. Described as a ‘visionary piece of legislation’, the MCA was a significant landmark on the legal landscape. It represented a triumph of autonomy by recognising that, as far as possible, people should play an active role in decisions about their welfare. At the core of the MCA is the fundamental principle that a person must be assumed to have decision making capacity unless it is established that he lacks it. The law therefore assumes that everyone has the ability to act and take decisions in accordance with their own interests, and affords primacy to individual priorities over paternalistic imperatives. Where a person lacks capacity – whether for reasons of learning disability, dementia, brain injury, or some other impairment of or disturbance in the functioning of the mind or brain – the MCA permits decision-makers to act on behalf of the person in accordance with his ‘best interests’. This means that, amongst other things, decision-makers must take into account the person’s past and present wishes and feelings, his beliefs and values, and any other factors that the person would be likely to consider, in order to act in a way which would likely give expression to the person’s autonomy. In this way, the MCA sought to empower people to make decisions for themselves, protect the vulnerable from the excesses of paternalism, and engineer a cultural shift in attitudes to mental impairment and incapacity.’
OUP Blog, 17th January 2017
Source: www.blog.oup.com
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