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A deficient capacity assessment

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The Isolation of Experts

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Louis v The Home Office [2021] EWHC 288 (QB), 2021 WL 00542118
Case Updates

Louis v The Home Office [2021] EWHC 288 (QB), 2021 WL 00542118

Relevance:     Psychiatry

 

Topics:            Diagnosis

                        Causation

                        Taxonomy

                        Adjustment disorder

                        Depressive illness

R v Rebelo [2021] EWCA Crim 306, 2021 WL 00848726
Case Updates

R v Rebelo [2021] EWCA Crim 306, 2021 WL 00848726

Relevance:      General

Psychiatry

 

Topics:            Capacity

                        Voluntariness

                        Free will

                        Gross negligence manslaughter

Jarman v Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 323 (QB), 2021 WL 00622030
Case Updates

Jarman v Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 323 (QB), 2021 WL 00622030

Relevance:                  General

                                    Orthopaedics

Topics:                        Bias

                                    Reliance on literature

                                    Cauda equina syndrome

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