Crown Court Lawyers

1. I was arrested and immediately sent to a mental hospital, at the start of November, 2014. Over the next two months, I was transferred to two further hospitals: I was detained in three mental hospitals in two months. The hospitals were in different locations but otherwise identical in function and restriction classification.
(i). In December, 2014, I was granted unescorted leave and, at the start of January, 2015, I was discharged. A condition for discharge was that, occasionally, I meet a community team. There were no concerns regarding me.
(ii). While I took leave, and while I was discharged, I did not conceal the fact the Campaign continued.
2. At the end of February, 2015, I attended a hearing at the Crown Court. The judge appeared surprised I had been discharged, he summarily ordered I be remanded in custody.
3. My solicitor did not argue for my continued liberty: he should at least have asked the Court why it rejected the medical opinions that informed the decisions to discharge me and, after continued interactions with me, during the time I was at liberty, to consider that decision good.
4. The Solicitor came to see me in the cells, as I waited to be taken to prison. He laughed mockingly and said:
"I'll come and visit you in prison!"
5. My imprisonment occasioned severe constraints on me; I was unable to communicate with my solicitor and to influence the conduct of my case.
6. The Solicitor submitted to the Court, without first showing them to me, reports replete with falsehoods and strange errors, that declared me to be mentally disordered and dangerous.
(i). When I saw the report, I asked the prison chaplain if I could use his telephone to place a call with my solicitor - he had not been in communication with me.
(ii). My first words to the solicitor were:
"That report is replete with lies."
(iii). The Chaplain immediately forbade me to use his telephone to discuss my case. I was forced immediately to end the call.
(iv). The Solicitor made no attempt to discover my concerns regarding that report: he did not telephone, he did not visit.
(a). I could do no more: I was in prison, unable to communicate with my solicitors. I sat in prison, spectator to a process that railroaded me.
(v). That Report subsequently became the cornerstone of the decision to detain me under section.
7. The Solicitor repeatedly ignored my instructions that he argue I was not mentally disordered.
8. Six months later, I was transferred to a mental hospital. I prepared a report and, later in the processes, an addendum to that report, describing the deficiencies of the diagnoses. I the Report to the Solicitor, with instructions he forward it to the Court.
(i). He did so but, I later discovered, with a note implying the Report was a symptom of my mental illness and should be ignored. The Court appears to have observed his advice.
9. The final decision, in that process of 2015, was that I be detained under section.