7 August Case Updates R v Beggs [2023] NICA 24 Personal injury, Psychology, Learning disability, Psychiatry, reliability, Sexual assault medicine, ABE interview, Down syndrome, Genital injury, Menopause, Penetration “Beware opining on the reliability of a complainant”
7 August Case Updates Z (A Child: No.2: Welfare Decision) [2023] EWFC 61 Psychology, Psychiatry, Social work, Therapy-availability and cost “What if the parent cannot afford to pay for the recommended therapy?”
7 August Case Updates Wyrebek v Circuit Court, Gliwice, Poland [2023] EWHC 951 (Admin) Psychology, Extradition, Psychiatry, Psychometric testing, Intellectual/learning disability “The value of psychometric testing”
5 July Industry News Updated guidance on the use of Psychologists as Expert Witnesses in the family courts in England and Wales Psychology, family court, guidance, British Psychological Society, regulation Joint document by the Family Justice Council and the BPS provides a set of guidelines for how to instruct expert witnesses in family proceedings.
6 June Case Updates M (A Child: Leave to Oppose Adoption) [2023] EWCA Civ 404 Psychology, Psychiatry, Treating doctor “Addressing treatability in a family case”
6 June Case Updates S, Re (A Child: Findings of Fact) [2023] EWCA Civ 346 Psychology, Psychiatry, reliability, 'Achieving Best Evidence', Interviewing “Achieving best evidence in the criminal and family courts”
6 June Case Updates Dr S Bi v E-ACT [2023] EAT 43 Psychology, Psychiatry, Vulnerability, Medical records “Vulnerable parties and witnesses in the Employment Tribunal”
30 May Case Updates FGX v Gaunt [2023] EWHC 419 (KB) Causation, Psychology, Psychiatry, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Apportionment “PTSD resulting from publication of covertly recorded naked images”
30 May Rules and Regulations D v S [2023] EWCOP 8 Psychology, Psychiatry, Neurorehabilitation, Capacity to divorce “What is the test for capacity to divorce?”
3 April Case Updates Re C (‘Parental Alienation’; Instruction of Expert) [2023] EWHC 345 (Fam) General, Admissibility, Psychology, Parental alienation, Unregulated Experts, Protected titles “When is a psychologist not a psychologist?”