1. I am detained under sections 37 and 41 of the Mental Health Act 1983. Section 41 makes the Secretary of State for Justice responsible for easing restrictions and discharging me: he could discharge me today, if he wished.
2. Once a year, I may apply for a hearing of the Mental Health Tribunal, which may order I be discharged. That is the extent of its powers; it may not otherwise ease restrictions.
3. The Tribunal is arbiter: it is a last resort, where the Secretary of State ought to have ordered I be discharged but has not done so.
4. In my case, the Tribunal has repeatedly made unlawful decisions declaring my detention sound. In almost each instance, the Tribunal knew before it made those unlawful decisions the decisions would be unlawful: it made them anyway.
(i). All the decisions made by the Tribunal, regarding the legitimacy of my detention, have been unlawful.
(ii). I have reported these unlawful decisions to the Secretary of State who, as Secretary of State for Justice and Lord Chancellor is responsible for the judiciary, has a duty to uphold the law and must act on such reports. Secretaries of State have refused to act but have been unable to defend their quiescence.
4. The Secretary of State for Justice is therefore entirely responsible for my unjustified detention: he may discharge me at any time but has refused to do so, though he is unable to produce a valid diagnosis or to defend the view I am dangerous, and he ignores the unlawful decisions by the judiciary, for which he is responsible.
(i). Those unlawful decisions endorse his refusal to discharge me; he ignores unlawful decisions that buttress his unlawful detention of me.