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Anti social behaviour – Injunction
Anti social behaviour –
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Issues
- Repeated anti social behaviour included
brandishing a machete in the street. A neighbour had left their
property due to repeated intimidating behaviour.
- Residents indicated to the RBH LSET
enforcement officer they were too frightened to be named in
statements. The tenant lived with his mother who was concerned
about his behaviour and had contacted mental health services. The
tenant had recently been assessed at hospital and discharged the
same day.
Approach
- Risk was identified both to the public and
the tenant's family. On this basis RBH LSET successfully applied
for an immediate injunction with power of arrest. The tenant was
arrested shortly afterwards for breaching the injunction.
- In court the tenant was unrepresented and RBH
LSET secured independent representation for the tenant with the
local law centre.
- RBH LSET successfully argued in court that
the tenant should be remanded in hospital for a mental health
assessment advocating the Housing Act 1996 allowed the court to
remand a Defendant without the need for a medical report.
- RBH LSET then successfully liaised with the
hospital, and their solicitors, on behalf of the police to admit
the tenant, where he was detained for three weeks for reports.
Outcomes
- A care plan was produced for the
tenant, made available to all parties involved. This explained the
support agencies involved in care and revised medication.
- At court it was agreed that the tenant could
return for six months on condition that no further problems were
caused in the community.
- The care package was delivered with no
further incidents of anti-social behaviour in the following six
months. No problems have been reported since.