15 February Case Updates Young v Downey [2020] EWHC 3457 (QB) Psychiatry, Nervous shock Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Nervous shock Secondary victims
15 February Case Updates A Local Authority v AA [2020] EWCOP 66 Capacity cases, Psychiatry, Autism Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Capacity Autism Asperger syndrome Auto-erotic asphyxia
15 February Case Updates B v A [2020] EWHC 3138 (Fam) Psychiatry Relevance: Psychiatry Topic: Child abduction Parental mental health
15 February Case Updates Neurim Pharmaceuticals v Generics UK Limited [2020] EWHC 3270 (Pat) General, Bias Relevance: General Topics: Bias Disingenuousness
15 February Case Updates R (IJ (Kosovo)) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWHC 3487 (Admin) Psychiatry, Trafficking Topics: Trafficking Shortage occupation list National Referral Mechanism
15 February Case Updates Bankole-Jones v Watford Borough Council [2020] EWHC 3100 (Admin) Psychiatry, Vulnerability Relevance: Medical Psychiatry Issues: Homelessness Vulnerability
15 February Case Updates R v Weldemaryam [2020] EWCA Crim 1616 Psychiatry Relevance: Psychiatry Issues: Hybrid orders Culpability
15 February Case Updates AMDC v AG [2020] EWCOP 58, 2020 WL 06749202 Psychiatry, Capacity assessment Relevance: Psychiatry Capacity assessments Topic: Assessment of capacity
28 January Industry News Peter Morton shares this alert which considers two recent English court judgments providing important guidance impacting expert evidence, first as regards conflicts of interest and, second, as regards the risks of an award being challenged for serious irregularity upon a misapplication by the tribunal of a model agreed between quantum experts for assessing damages. Guidance from the English Court on Experts' Conflicts of Interests and Highlights the Potential Pitfalls in the Use of Financial Damages Models
11 January Case Updates Petrovics v Prosecutor Generals Office of Hungary [2020] EWHC 3145 (Admin), 2020 WL 06811869 Extradition, Medical expert Topics: Uncorroborated history Assumed facts