24 August Case Updates Long v Elegant Resorts Limited [2021] EWHC 1330 (QB) Neuropsychological assessment, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, Amnesia, Brain Damage, Head Injury, Somatisation, Expert's meeting, Exaggeration / Dishonesty, 11. Report Writing, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements Relevance: Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychology Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Amnesia Brain damage Head injury Somatisation Experts’ meeting Exaggeration / dishonesty Neuropsychological testing
24 August Case Updates Re TT (Children) (Discharge of Care Order) [2021] EWCA Civ 742 Psychology, Psychiatry, Attachment theory, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Attachment theory
23 August Case Updates R v Lall [2021] EWCA Crim 404, 2021 WL 01041724 Psychiatry, Sentencing, Hybrid order, Insight, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Sentencing Topics: Hospital order with restrictions Hybrid order Insight
23 August Case Updates Gardiner v Tabet [2021] EWHC 563 (Ch), 2021 WL 00965862 Testamentary capacity, Psychiatry, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Testamentary capacity
23 August Case Updates Fletcher v Government of India [2021] EWHC 610 (Admin) Extradition, Suicide risk, Psychiatry, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Extradition Suicide risk
23 August Case Updates Louis v The Home Office [2021] EWHC 288 (QB), 2021 WL 00542118 Causation, Psychiatry, Diagnosis, Taxonomy, Adjustment Disorder, Depressive illness, 07. Receiving Instructions, 11. Report Writing, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements, 15. Giving Oral Evidence Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Diagnosis Causation Taxonomy Adjustment disorder Depressive illness
23 August Case Updates A Local Authority v Mother 2021 WL 00781531 Psychiatry, Oral testimony, Diagnosis, 15. Giving Oral Evidence Relevance: General Psychiatry Topics: Oral testimony Diagnosis
23 August Case Updates R v Murphy [2021] EWCA Crim 190, 2021 WL 00848104 Psychology, Learning disability, Psychiatry, Credibility, Demeanour of Witness, IQ, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Demeanour of witness Credibility Learning disability IQ
23 August Case Updates R v Rebelo [2021] EWCA Crim 306, 2021 WL 00848726 Capacity cases, Psychiatry, Gross negligence, Free will, Voluntariness, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence Relevance: General Psychiatry Topics: Capacity Voluntariness Free will Gross negligence manslaughter
15 June Case Updates NB v MI [2021] EWHC 224 (Fam) Capacity cases, Psychology, Psychiatry, Capacity to marry, Wisdom, 06. Rules and Regulations The case: an application for a declaration of non-recognition of a marriage formed on 1 June 2013 in Pakistan under sharia law. In 1995 the applicant at the age of six was involved in a major car accident and suffered a catastrophic brain injury. There was understandably a serious impact on the applicant’s mental health and cognitive functioning.