Have seen DS' post Mental Health tribunal decision report His application to discharge the section he is on failed. I had spoken to DS' community practitioner but nothing that I said was relayed to the hearing/in the report (although the pratitioner, a social worker, had written a report which I haven't seen and was present).
DS' 'nearest relative' is my ex who was present at the hearing. He had submitted a bundle of notes and papers. He is very, very litigious and over many years has behaved appallingly, throwing mud, about me and, recently, about my sibling whom he barely knows. He's sent DH emails tearing into DS and DS texts asking him to keep away from him.
The very nasty and untruthful comments about me in the report have rather clearly come from him, in his 'oral evidence' and from his letters to the treatment team. I hadn't mentioned him when speaking to the SW because it didn't seem relevant and because our brief relationship is very much in the past. Though, in his report, it's come back to bite me.
Ex hasn't been to see DS, not once, in hopsital even though he lived far closer to one of the hospitals than we do (me and DH who brough DS up from a very young age). We see DS pretty much every day, take him out and are involved, as carers, in meetings and conversations with the treatment team. They acknowlege that we're loving parents.
The report is poorly written. The errors and distortions aren't attributed - they're stated as though they were facts. It makes really horrible reading. I don't know who wrote the report and I don't know what recourse I have as far as challenging the references to me are concerned. There it is, along with ex's 'bundle' on the hospital file and I feel that maybe I shouldn't be passive now.
My priority is DS because he could see his file, I guess and do I want to add to the bile that's on it? But I have to think about how to respond to these lies, written as though they were facts. It's defamation but what can I do in this context? Over so long, I've been anxious that ex h could raise hell if, for instance, I stood for public office which I've often wanted to do. Nothing he could pin on me but his language is so legalistic and damaging and of course mud can stick.
I'd be grateful for any suggestions.