22 November Case Updates Re BU [2021] EWCOP 54 Psychology, Psychiatry, Capacity to marry, Capacity to contact, Coercive control, Capacity to enter civil partnership Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology
26 August Case Updates Lonsdale v Teasdale [2021] EWHC 2342 (Ch) Psychology, Testamentary capacity, Psychiatry, 6-CIT Test Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Testamentary capacity 6-CIT Test
26 August Case Updates King v Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWHC 1576 (QB) Psychology, Patent, Psychiatry, Nervous shock, Secondary victims Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Nervous shock Secondary victims
24 August Expert Discussions and Joint Statements Long v Elegant Resorts Limited [2021] EWHC 1330 (QB) Neuropsychological assessment, Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, Amnesia, Brain Damage, Head Injury, Somatisation, Expert's meeting, Exaggeration / Dishonesty Relevance: Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychology Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Amnesia Brain damage Head injury Somatisation Experts’ meeting Exaggeration / dishonesty Neuropsychological testing
24 August Case Updates Re TT (Children) (Discharge of Care Order) [2021] EWCA Civ 742 Psychology, Psychiatry, Attachment theory Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Attachment theory
23 August Case Updates R v Murphy [2021] EWCA Crim 190, 2021 WL 00848104 Psychology, Learning disability, Psychiatry, Credibility, Demeanour of Witness, IQ Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Demeanour of witness Credibility Learning disability IQ
15 June Case Updates NB v MI [2021] EWHC 224 (Fam) Capacity cases, Psychology, Psychiatry, Capacity to marry, Wisdom The case: an application for a declaration of non-recognition of a marriage formed on 1 June 2013 in Pakistan under sharia law. In 1995 the applicant at the age of six was involved in a major car accident and suffered a catastrophic brain injury. There was understandably a serious impact on the applicant’s mental health and cognitive functioning.
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
11 January Case Updates Farookh v Judge of the Saarbrucken Regional Court (Germany) [2020] EWHC 3143 (Admin), 2020 WL 06811821 Psychology, Extradition, Clinical psychology Topic: Suicide risk The case: The Appellant was aged 21 and wanted for extradition to Germany. He was assessed by Dr Arthur Anderson, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
27 July Case Updates Re D (A Child) (Appeal out of time) [2020] EWHC 1167 (Fam), 2020 WL 02528397 Psychiatric evidence, Psychology Relevance: Psychiatry & psychology Issues: Ultimate issue Veracity assessments