15 June Case Updates Widdowson v Liberty Insurance Limited, NHS Grampian, NHS Highland [2021] CSOH 15 Negligence, Guidelines, 11. Report Writing The case: Mr Widdowson was seriously injured in a road traffic accident and subsequently died of his injuries on 11 January 2016.
15 June Case Updates Saxby v UDG Healthcare (UK) Holdings Limited [2021] EWHC 144 (Ch) Duties of the Expert, Language, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, 15. Giving Oral Evidence The case: a claim arising out of the sale, by the Claimants (and the other shareholders) to the Defendant of their shareholdings contending that they were induced to sell by actionable misrepresentations, some of which were fraudulent, which also amounted to negligent misstatements.
15 June Case Updates Criterion Buildings Ltd v McKinsey and Co Inc (United Kingdom) [2021] EWHC 216 (Ch) Impartiality, Independence, 11. Report Writing Nature of case: a claim for sums in respect of service charges said to be due under leases.
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 Z v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust [2020] EWCOP 69 Neurology, 07. Receiving Instructions, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence Relevance: General Neurology Topics: Records Consent to examination Substance of all material instructions Qualified opinion
15 February Case Updates The Government of the United States of America v Assange (2020) Westminster Magistrates’ Court Impartiality, Autistic spectrum disorder, Extradition, Psychiatry, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence ‘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, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Medical Psychiatry Forensic medicine Topics: Ultimate issue Credibility Clinical plausibility Trafficking
15 February Case Updates M (Children) v Wiltshire Council [2020] EWCA Civ 1717 Experts duty, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing Relevance: General Topics: Expert’s duty to the court