Posts Tagged ‘Mental Health’

originally published: 12th July 2009
New figures released by the Ministerial Council on Deaths in Custody show that in the past 10 years 3,540 of those detained in NHS facilities, including high-security psychiatric hospitals, have died.
The figures have been condemned as “horrific” by the Howard League for Penal Reform, which will launch a campaign tomorrow called [...]


originally published: 30th June 2009
On Thursday last week, the Court of Appeal handed down their judgment in respect of our Appeal against the High Court’s decision to refuse Permission for a Judicial Review of the Coroner’s inquest after my mother’s death.
Although the judgment will be an important one, their Lordships, headed by Lord Justice Dyson, [...]