Judge seeks answers from Home Office on failing mental health system

Posted by on Apr 16, 2007 in Uncategorized | 34 comments I imagine Judge Peter Jacobs will be listening with special interest today when controversial plans to allow mentally ill people to be detained against their will are discussed in the Commons. Last week he was forced to jail a mentally ill man because there was no alternative available in the community care system. He was so incensed, that he asked Home Office officials to explain why,...
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