1 March Case Updates A Clinical Commissioning Group v AF [2020] EWCOP 16, 2020 WL 01494079 Capacity cases, Best interest, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits “Avoiding a macabre experiment” Relevance: Capacity cases Topics: Best interests
1 March Case Updates Walaszczyk v Regional Court of Law in Czestochowa, Poland [2020] EWHC 849 (Admin), 2020 WL 01695206 Extradition case, Mental disorder, Threshold level, 05. Rules and Regulations, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Extradition cases Topic: Threshold level of mental disorder necessary to prevent extradition
1 March Case Updates McLennan v General Medical Council [2020] CSIH 12 [2020] 4 WLUK 119 Covert recording, Report drafting, Consultation, Doctor, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits “Trust me, I’m a doctor” Relevance: General. Topic: Report drafting (accuracy). Covert audio recording of consultation
1 March Case Updates R v Thomas (Dean) [2020] EWCA Crim 117, [2020] 1 WLUK 421 Criminal, Fitness to plead, Fitness to stand trial, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits “One size does not fit all” Relevance: Criminal jurisdiction Topic: Fitness to plead and stand trial (FTP) Appointment of intermediary
1 March Case Updates MacDonald v Burton [2020] EWHC 906 (QB), 2020 WL 01262728 Recording, Medico-legal, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits “It’s just not cricket” Judge: Spencer J (coincidentally Chair of the Expert Witness Institute) Relevance: General
31 December Case Updates Zeromska-Smith v United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust [2019] EWHC 980 (QB), 2019 WL 01643863 Personal injury, Recovery of damages, Pathological grief, 10. Report Writing, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits “When is a mental disorder not a mental disorder?” Relevance: Personal injury cases involving bereavement Topic: Recovery of damages for pathological grief
31 December Case Updates Mustard v Flower [2019] EWHC 2623 (QB), 2019 WL 05104326 Covert recording, Neuropsychological assessment, Part 35, 05. Rules and Regulations, 11. Responding to questions, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits “Be sure your sins will find you out” Relevance: General. Issues: Admissibility of covert recording of neuropsychological assessment Disproportionate Part 35 questions
25 June News Algorithms use in the Criminal Justice System Artificial Intelligence, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits, Algorithms A new report, released by the Technology and Law Public Policy Commission at the beginning of June, examines the challenges in the use of algorithms and suggests key recommendations.
1 March Day in the life A day in the life of an Expert Psychiatric Witness 10. Report Writing, 14. Giving Oral Evidence, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Dr Keith Rix Consultant Psychiatrist