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These case updates are provided by Professor Keith J.B. Rix, BMedBiol (Hons), MPhil, LLM, MD, FRCPsych, Hon FFFLM

Professor Keith Rix is a founding member of the Expert Witness Institute and became a Fellow in 2002. He is a member of the EWI’s Membership Committee. He is Visiting Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, School of Medicine, University of Chester, Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Lead, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.  He has provided expert evidence for over 35 years, including on a pro bono basis in capital cases in the Caribbean and Africa. He is the author of Expert Psychiatric Evidence and a co-editor, with Laurence Mynors-Wallis and Ciaran Craven SC, of the second edition, Rix’s Expert Psychiatric Evidence, which is being published by Cambridge University Press in September 2020. He is also the lead author of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Report CR193 Responsibilities of psychiatrist who provide expert opinion to courts and tribunals.   

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Sicwebu v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 550
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Sicwebu v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2023] EWCA Civ 550

“The expert vindicated”

The case: This appeal concerned the application of the "unduly harsh" test in the case of a foreign national offender, Mr Sicwebu, convicted of a serious criminal offence and subject to deportation in consequence. The appellant contended that Judge Hanson's decision was wrong in law because the judge erred in his treatment of the expert evidence.

 

Submissions: As for the treatment of expert evidence, it was submitted in relation to the expert report of Tamara Licht, that Judge Hanson unfairly disregarded her report on the basis of "an issue for which Tamara Licht has been criticised by a judge of this Tribunal before" without providing any further details.

 

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