and facilitated meetings where BMH UK's director Matilda MacAttram has been able to voice concerns of one of the society's voiceless group.

Dr Leslie Thomas LLB, currently barrister for the Duggan family in the Mark Duggan inquest, Thomas, was contacted by the family of the latest death in custody victim, Leon Briggs from Luton immediately after the 39-year-old tragically lost his life, after he was taken into police custody in November this year. Named 'Lawyer of the Year' by his peers in 2012, this coming year will see Thomas continue to take up the causes of bereaved families of mental health services users and others in law courts up and down the country.

Chinyere Inyama, Her Majesty's Coroner for West London, Inyama made legal history as the first black coronerin 2011. While this has meant him spending less time as a legal activist in the arena of mental health, he chaired the ground breaking national conference on Policing, Mental Health & black Briton in June, which put this issue on the national mental health agenda. Inyama continues to support the work of mental health as it relates to people from the UK's African Caribbean communities as patron of ACCI (African Caribbean Community Initiative).

Matilda MacAttram, Black Mental Health UK, continues to lead the only agency from the community that lobbies parliament and campaigns consistently for positive change at a national and grass roots level for improvements in the way people from the UK's African Caribbean communities in need of mental health care are treated. In 2013 she launched