9 March Starting your Expert Witness Business New Template: Information for people attending an appointment with an Expert EWI is grateful to member Andrew Quaile who has shared his template with Members so they can make use of it too.
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 Relevance: Medical experts Psychiatry Topic: Remote assessments
15 February Case Updates AMDC v AG [2021] EWCOP 5 Capacity cases, Psychiatry Relevance: Psychiatry Topic: Capacity
15 February Case Updates R v Dunleavy [2021] EWCA Crim 39 General, Psychology, Psychiatry 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 General, Neurology 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 General, Impartiality, Autistic spectrum disorder, Extradition, Psychiatry ‘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 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 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 General, Experts duty Relevance: General Topics: Expert’s duty to the court
15 February Case Updates AK v A London Borough Council [2020] EWCA Civ 1755 Relevance: Psychiatry Child psychiatry Topics: Litigation capacity (a child) Autistic spectrum disorder