Black Mental Health UK focuses on the human rights concerns over new community treatment orders.

Former shadow health minister, Tim Lawton slammed CTO’s as psychiatric asbo’s, which will make thousands of people prisoners in their own homes. Health experts working in the community fear that in a risk-adverse climate the danger that clinicians will use the [...]

The Register made it along to the more tech-focused Cambridge event:
If the panel sessions were largely about people agreeing strenuously with one another, the afternoon debate (in Cambridge), between Government Minister Bill Rammell, MP and David Howarth, MP summarised in one short exchange what the real issue is. Both speakers agreed that the other [...]

That’s the question posed today by the popular PoliticalBetting.com website, who are covering the Convention on Modern Liberty.
Damn right it will!
With the launch of the Freedom Bill from the Liberal Democrats and a fringe event at today’s Convention looking at where the Conservatives truly position themselves on civil liberties, it seems the opposition parties are [...]

The sold out Convention on Modern Liberty in London has got underway. If you can’t be there you can watch the event live here.
You can also watch the event streamed live at Aston University in Birmingham, followed by a discussion on “Preventing Violent Extremism? State surveillance and community organisation”

In a late addition to the Convention on Modern Liberty, a satellite event has been scheduled in Birmingham.
The event to be held on Saturday 28 February at Aston University will feature a live link-up with the main event in London, followed by a workshop on “Preventing Violent Extremism? State surveillance and community organisation”.
In addition to Birmingham, satellite [...]

A call to all concerned with attacks on our fundamental rights and freedoms under pressure from counter-terrorism, financial breakdown and the database state
News has reached us via Facebook of this event scheduled for February 2009 in Central London. Guest speakers include the usual suspects Shami Chakrabarti (director of Liberty) and Nick Clegg MP. What interests us [...]