14 September News EWI welcomes Lady Justice Geraldine Andrews DBE to the Board Lady Justice Geraldine Andrews DBE has joined EWI's Board of Governors.
7 September News Judge overturns decision to call claimant's medical expert in Fast-Track trial. 06. Rules and Regulations, 15. Giving Oral Evidence In a judgment earlier in the year, HHJ Freedman overturned a decision to call a claimant’s medical expert because the defendant had provided no reasoning for why the expert needed to be called for questioning.
1 September News A CHILD PSYCHIATRIST: EXPERT ROLES IN THE CRIMINAL COURT The Psychiatric Expert in Court by Dr Anthony W Baker (Part 3) 15. Giving Oral Evidence This is the third article in a series looking at different aspects of the roles that a child psychiatrist might play in the Crown Court.
26 August Case Updates Lonsdale v Teasdale [2021] EWHC 2342 (Ch) Psychology, Testamentary capacity, Psychiatry, 6-CIT Test, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Testamentary capacity 6-CIT Test
26 August Case Updates Aderounmu v Colvin [2021] EWHC 2293 (QB) Capacity cases, Capacity to litigate, Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry, Neuropsychology, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Psychiatry Neuropsychiatry Neuropsychology Topics: Capacity Litigation capacity
26 August Case Updates Ahmed v The Fitness to Practice Committee of the Medical Council [2021] IECA 214 Ultimate issue, Fitness to practice, 11. Report Writing Relevance: General Topics: Fitness to practise Ultimate issue
26 August Case Updates Walkden v Drayton Manor Park Ltd [2021] EWHC 2056 (QB) Psychiatry, Field of expertise, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence Relevance: General Psychiatry Issues: Field of expertise
26 August Case Updates TMO Renewables Ltd v Yeo & Ors [2021] EWHC 2033 (Ch) Expert's duty, Assumptions, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence Relevance: General Issues: Experts’ duties Assumptions
26 August Case Updates Wigan BC v Y (Refusal to Authorise Deprivation of Liberty) [2021] EWHC 1982 (Fam) Psychiatry, Deprivation of liberty, The nature of mental disorder, ICD and DSM, Mental disorder v the psychological consequences o, 06. Rules and Regulations Relevance: Psychiatry Issues: Deprivation of liberty The nature of mental disorder Mental disorder v the psychological consequences of trauma ICD and DSM
26 August Case Updates King v Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust [2021] EWHC 1576 (QB) Psychology, Patent, Psychiatry, Nervous shock, Secondary victims, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology Topics: Nervous shock Secondary victims