Issue: Whether the approach to unanimous expert evidence of diminished responsibility had changed; whether such evidence should have led the judge to withdraw a charge of murder from the jury; the propriety of directions to the jury.
Issue: Whether orders under ss37/41 Mental Health Act 1983 should be made in place of imprisonment for public protection in light of fresh medical evidence.
Issue: Whether various uses of force, including spraying CS gas and deploying a Taser, against a man with various mental health conditions who was undergoing an acute behavioural episode, amounted to trespass to the person and negligence.
Issue: Whether there was bias, unfairness or any other breach of natural justice when a Tribunal judge read a Court of Appeal judgment in a criminal case relating to the patient that was linked to the circumstances of detention.
Issue: Whether the sentencing judge erred in fixing the minimum term of a defendant convicted of murder in light of psychiatric evidence supporting a partial defence of diminished responsibility.