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An elderly lady, pitifully frail, is seated in an armchair in the lounge of a care home, dozing fitfully.
Now just a little over six stone, she is a pale shadow of the vibrant woman she once was. What is going on inside her mind?
Is she lost in a dream of happier times, when she was young and full of life with an adored husband and young son – long ago days when it seemed impossible she would become old?
Or has this 85-year-old woman been doped up by the staff to keep her quiet, to make their lives easy – trapped in a perpetual state of confusion, destined to spend her final days in this twilight world of half-consciousness?
When her son makes his weekly visit to his mother, he suspects the latter.
“She’s always asleep,” he says, “so I gently ask her a few questions and she gradually comes round. It’s so distressing to see how she has deteriorated since she’s been in the home.
“She has dropped from 11 stone to six in less than two years.
“I am very worried that she is being given medication to keep her quiet, to make life easy for the staff.
“The staff are mostly young, untrained women under 20 who have no interest whatsoever in taking care of my mother or the other people in there.
“They just sit gossiping in the corner of the room. One of them spends all her time admiring herself in the mirror.”
The lady’s son, whom we shall call Michael, has very real fears for his mother and so does not wish her to be identified.
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Archive for October 6th, 2007
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· Flaws during trial would carry less weight · Ministers suppress legal experts’ criticisms
The government has suppressed for more than six months an overwhelmingly hostile reaction by judges and legal experts to proposals to restrict the appeal court’s powers to quash convictions. Senior appeal court judges, the council of circuit judges, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and, in a personal response, its chairman, Graham Zellick, all lambasted the plans in unpublished responses, the Guardian has learned.
Other bodies, including the Law Society, the Criminal Bar Association and the campaigning groups Justice and Liberty, have made their objections public. But the government has ignored Cabinet Office guidelines on publishing the responses to consultations, though the measures are now part of a bill due for a second reading next week.
The measure, which would require judges to uphold a conviction if they thought the defendant was guilty despite flaws in the trial or pre-trial process, has been incorporated in the criminal justice and immigration bill, scheduled for second reading next Monday. Ministers have responded in part to the outcry by adding a new provision that judges need not uphold the conviction if they believe this would be incompatible with the defendant’s human rights.
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· Flaws during trial would carry less weight · Ministers suppress legal experts’ criticisms
The government has suppressed for more than six months an overwhelmingly hostile reaction by judges and legal experts to proposals to restrict the appeal court’s powers to quash convictions. Senior appeal court judges, the council of circuit judges, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and, in a personal response, its chairman, Graham Zellick, all lambasted the plans in unpublished responses, the Guardian has learned.
Other bodies, including the Law Society, the Criminal Bar Association and the campaigning groups Justice and Liberty, have made their objections public. But the government has ignored Cabinet Office guidelines on publishing the responses to consultations, though the measures are now part of a bill due for a second reading next week.
The measure, which would require judges to uphold a conviction if they thought the defendant was guilty despite flaws in the trial or pre-trial process, has been incorporated in the criminal justice and immigration bill, scheduled for second reading next Monday. Ministers have responded in part to the outcry by adding a new provision that judges need not uphold the conviction if they believe this would be incompatible with the defendant’s human rights.
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· Flaws during trial would carry less weight · Ministers suppress legal experts’ criticisms
The government has suppressed for more than six months an overwhelmingly hostile reaction by judges and legal experts to proposals to restrict the appeal court’s powers to quash convictions. Senior appeal court judges, the council of circuit judges, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and, in a personal response, its chairman, Graham Zellick, all lambasted the plans in unpublished responses, the Guardian has learned.
Other bodies, including the Law Society, the Criminal Bar Association and the campaigning groups Justice and Liberty, have made their objections public. But the government has ignored Cabinet Office guidelines on publishing the responses to consultations, though the measures are now part of a bill due for a second reading next week.
The measure, which would require judges to uphold a conviction if they thought the defendant was guilty despite flaws in the trial or pre-trial process, has been incorporated in the criminal justice and immigration bill, scheduled for second reading next Monday. Ministers have responded in part to the outcry by adding a new provision that judges need not uphold the conviction if they believe this would be incompatible with the defendant’s human rights.
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· Flaws during trial would carry less weight · Ministers suppress legal experts’ criticisms
The government has suppressed for more than six months an overwhelmingly hostile reaction by judges and legal experts to proposals to restrict the appeal court’s powers to quash convictions. Senior appeal court judges, the council of circuit judges, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and, in a personal response, its chairman, Graham Zellick, all lambasted the plans in unpublished responses, the Guardian has learned.
Other bodies, including the Law Society, the Criminal Bar Association and the campaigning groups Justice and Liberty, have made their objections public. But the government has ignored Cabinet Office guidelines on publishing the responses to consultations, though the measures are now part of a bill due for a second reading next week.
The measure, which would require judges to uphold a conviction if they thought the defendant was guilty despite flaws in the trial or pre-trial process, has been incorporated in the criminal justice and immigration bill, scheduled for second reading next Monday. Ministers have responded in part to the outcry by adding a new provision that judges need not uphold the conviction if they believe this would be incompatible with the defendant’s human rights.
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MSbP – does exist
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The link is to a criminal prosecution (that in the absence of any evidence to the contrary I would believe to be safe) for FII or MSbP. FII is a better description of the situation as it is Fabricating an Illness (by proxy). One of the problems with the debate about MSbP (and also SBS and CML) is that it does exist. The question is how one can identify when it is the case. It is not suffiicent to say a) If the doctors cannot work out what an illness is caused by … and b) If the child is separated from the parents it recovers. (aka a parentectomy). That this is “proof” of FII. The evidence we have from recent deaths of children is that the systems we use for determining the truth of these issues fail and to some extent end up as random results.
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Faked baby illness woman jailed
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A woman who faked the illness of a baby girl in her care causing her to undergo unnecessary operations has been jailed for two years.
The High Court in Glasgow heard that Suzanne McDaid, 23, had been suffering from Munchausens Syndrome by Proxy.
She told medical staff the child had been vomiting blood and doctors performed six operations in a bid to find the cause.
McDaid shouted “I never meant to hurt her” as she was led away from court.
She had earlier admitted culpable and reckless conduct between October 2005 and May 2006.
Blood spray
The court was told how McDaid, from Paisley, made her claims to staff at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley and Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Sick Children on numerous occasions.
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An elderly lady, pitifully frail, is seated in an armchair in the lounge of a care home, dozing fitfully.
Now just a little over six stone, she is a pale shadow of the vibrant woman she once was. What is going on inside her mind?
Is she lost in a dream of happier times, when she was young and full of life with an adored husband and young son – long ago days when it seemed impossible she would become old?
Or has this 85-year-old woman been doped up by the staff to keep her quiet, to make their lives easy – trapped in a perpetual state of confusion, destined to spend her final days in this twilight world of half-consciousness?
When her son makes his weekly visit to his mother, he suspects the latter.
“She’s always asleep,” he says, “so I gently ask her a few questions and she gradually comes round. It’s so distressing to see how she has deteriorated since she’s been in the home.
“She has dropped from 11 stone to six in less than two years.
“I am very worried that she is being given medication to keep her quiet, to make life easy for the staff.
“The staff are mostly young, untrained women under 20 who have no interest whatsoever in taking care of my mother or the other people in there.
“They just sit gossiping in the corner of the room. One of them spends all her time admiring herself in the mirror.”
The lady’s son, whom we shall call Michael, has very real fears for his mother and so does not wish her to be identified.
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· Flaws during trial would carry less weight · Ministers suppress legal experts’ criticisms
The government has suppressed for more than six months an overwhelmingly hostile reaction by judges and legal experts to proposals to restrict the appeal court’s powers to quash convictions. Senior appeal court judges, the council of circuit judges, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) and, in a personal response, its chairman, Graham Zellick, all lambasted the plans in unpublished responses, the Guardian has learned.
Other bodies, including the Law Society, the Criminal Bar Association and the campaigning groups Justice and Liberty, have made their objections public. But the government has ignored Cabinet Office guidelines on publishing the responses to consultations, though the measures are now part of a bill due for a second reading next week.
The measure, which would require judges to uphold a conviction if they thought the defendant was guilty despite flaws in the trial or pre-trial process, has been incorporated in the criminal justice and immigration bill, scheduled for second reading next Monday. Ministers have responded in part to the outcry by adding a new provision that judges need not uphold the conviction if they believe this would be incompatible with the defendant’s human rights.
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MSbP – does exist
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http://www.stopinjusticenow.com/News_0365.htm
The link is to a criminal prosecution (that in the absence of any evidence to the contrary I would believe to be safe) for FII or MSbP. FII is a better description of the situation as it is Fabricating an Illness (by proxy). One of the problems with the debate about MSbP (and also SBS and CML) is that it does exist. The question is how one can identify when it is the case. It is not suffiicent to say a) If the doctors cannot work out what an illness is caused by … and b) If the child is separated from the parents it recovers. (aka a parentectomy). That this is “proof” of FII. The evidence we have from recent deaths of children is that the systems we use for determining the truth of these issues fail and to some extent end up as random results.
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