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, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits 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.
15 February Case Updates Devon Partnership NHS Trust v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2021] EWHC 101 (Admin) Psychiatry, Medical expert, Remote assessments, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Medical experts Psychiatry Topic: Remote assessments
15 February Case Updates AMDC v AG [2021] EWCOP 5 Capacity cases, Psychiatry, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Topic: Capacity
15 February Case Updates R v Dunleavy [2021] EWCA Crim 39 Psychology, Psychiatry, 11. Report Writing Issues: Admissibility of expert evidence Autistic spectrum disorder Theory of mind Admissibility of evidence Mens rea Appeal
15 February Case Updates The Government of the United States of America v Assange (2020) Westminster Magistrates’ Court Impartiality, Autistic spectrum disorder, Extradition, Psychiatry, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits ‘Those bloody books’ Relevance: General Psychiatry Topics: Extradition Impartiality Duty to court Suicide risk Autistic spectrum disorder
15 February Case Updates Minstrell Recruitment Limited v Lockett [2020] EWHC 3537 (Ch) Psychiatry, Imprisonment, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Imprisonment (effects on mental health)
15 February Case Updates MN v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1746 Psychiatry, Medicine, Forensic medicine, 11. Report Writing, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Medical Psychiatry Forensic medicine Topics: Ultimate issue Credibility Clinical plausibility Trafficking
15 February Case Updates Young v Downey [2020] EWHC 3457 (QB) Psychiatry, Nervous shock, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Nervous shock Secondary victims