“A man who abused a Tory MP in a crude email after the politician was headbutted by a rival at Westminster was fined £110 and ordered to pay £100 costs yesterday. Nicholas Scales told MP Stuart Andrew to ‘stop wasting police time and get your fucking job done’, Leeds magistrates court heard.”
The Guardian, 22nd August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“This paper covers 5 topics:
(1) the Social Services (Wales) Bill;
(2) the Mental Health (Wales) Measure;
(3) the role of resources in decisions to provide services and challenges
to decisions about direct payments;
(4) challenges to decisions setting care home fees, and
(5) the relationship between community care and the best interests
jurisdiction.”
Full story (PDF)
11 KBW, 17th August 2012
Source: www.11kbw.com
“The legal advocate of the Moors murderer Ian Brady has been arrested for allegedly failing to reveal where the body of Keith Bennett, one of Brady and Myra Hindley’s five young victims, is buried.”
The Guardian, 17th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The police watchdog is facing fresh criticism after its report into the death of a black man who died in police custody found officers acted ‘reasonably’ and ‘proportionately’, while an inquest jury found unnecessary force had contributed to his demise.”
The Guardian, 15th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Eleven Winterbourne View staff have pleaded guilty to 38 charges of ill-treatment and neglect of a mental health patient under s127 Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA). In this post I want to consider why we need ‘special’ offences like s127 MHA and also s44 Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA), rather than prosecuting crimes in care settings using more ‘mainstream’ offences.”
UK Human Rights Blog, 14th August 2012
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
“The shocking catalogue of abuse at a care home first exposed by a TV investigation has been laid bare in a damning report.”
The Guardian, 7th August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The police watchdog is to investigate the evidence given by an officer during an inquest into the death of a schizophrenic man who died in custody.”
BBC News, 2nd August 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Yesterday’s narrative verdict in the Sean Rigg inquest revealed devastating failings by the police, mental health services, and the IPCC. Leslie Thomas reflects on the case and asks when will lessons be learnt by those trusted with public confidence?”
Garden Court Chambers Blog, 2nd August 2012
Source: www.gclaw.wordpress.com
“An inquest jury has concluded that police used unsuitable and unnecessary force on a man who died in custody, with officers failing to uphold the detained man’s basic rights as he collapsed after being pinned down for eight minutes.”
The Guardian, 1st August 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Selwood v Durham County Council and others [2012] EWCA Civ 979; [2012] WLR (D) 231
“When determining whether a defendant owed a common law duty of care to a claimant in respect of the actions of a third party on the basis of foreseeability, proximity and fairness, justice and reasonableness, in accordance with the test laid down in Caparo Industries plc v Dickman [1990] 2 AC 605, there was no need to show that the defendant had assumed any responsibility for the claimant’s safety. In determining whether it was fair, just and reasonable to impose that duty of care on a defendant who was a public authority, additional factors of public policy had to be considered and some classes of claimant would stand in such a special relationship with the defendant public authority that it would be fair, just and reasonable to impose a duty of care in respect of the actions of a third party. In respect of that limited class of claimants, the weight to be attached to some of the policy considerations which rendered a duty to a wider class undesirable was much less than if the duty was one owed to the world at large. In order to establish the existence of a duty of care on the basis of an assumption of responsibility, there was no requirement for something positive to that effect to have been said or something done which clearly indicated such assumption, and the assumption of responsibility could be inferred from circumstances.”
WLR Daily, 18th July 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
“A man who killed his dog by throwing it out of a 10th floor window has been jailed.”
The Independent, 25th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“An NHS trust has been fined £150,000 and told to pay £326,345 costs over the killing of a female care worker at a residential home in Bedfordshire.”
BBC News, 19th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Computer hacker Gary McKinnon ‘has no choice’ but to refuse a medical test to see if he is fit to be extradited to the US, his mother has said.”
BBC News, 19th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
” More than 11,000 people were deprived of their liberty last year using controversial new legislation that critics have argued is ‘not fit for purpose’.”
The Independent, 18th July 2012
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“The Defences of Insanity and Automatism – Law Commissioner Professor David Ormerod says, ‘To produce meaningful reform proposals and be confident they will work in practice we need evidence of their current use and any problems they pose. Our scoping paper asks questions to provide that information.’ ”
Law Commission, 18th July 2012
Source: www.lawcommission.justice.gov.uk
“Two children who were stabbed to death by their schizophrenic mother could have been saved had police acted quicker, a coroner has ruled.”
Daily Telegraph, 17th July 2012
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A jealous husband has been cleared of murdering his wife with a prohibited firearm after learning of her secret affair with another man.”
The Guardian, 12th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A woman with a history of mental health problems has been found guilty of murdering a 13-year-old girl in a park in a random and motiveless attack. Hannah Bonser, 26, stabbed Casey Kearney in an unprovoked attack in Elmfield Park, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in February this year. She will be sentenced on Wednesday afternoon. Despite her mental health problems, a jury at Sheffield crown court rejected Bonser’s claim that she was guilty only of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility.”
The Guardian, 11th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“The lawyer and founder of Reprieve on defending clients on death row, why the whole justice system is flawed – and his fear of appearing sanctimonious.”
The Guardian, 8th July 2012
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Moors Murderer Ian Brady’s mental health tribunal scheduled for Monday has been adjourned because he is too ill to attend, a judge has ruled.”
BBC News, 6th July 2012
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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