3 April Case Updates Re C (‘Parental Alienation’; Instruction of Expert) [2023] EWHC 345 (Fam) General, Admissibility, Psychology, Parental alienation, Unregulated Experts, Protected titles “When is a psychologist not a psychologist?”
6 February Case Updates Declan Colgan Music Ltd v Umg Recordings, Inc [2023] EWHC 4 (Ch) General, Admissibility, Expert evidence, Fact v opinion “Are experts limited to giving evidence of opinion?”
14 November Case Updates Admissibility or weight: what is the test for expert evidence? Admissibility, Impartiality, Expert's behaviour, Bias, Independence, Duties of the Expert, Duty of Expert, Duty to the court, Legal role of an expert witness, Expert bias In an exceptional case, as here, where the expert singularly and spectacularly fails in their duties to the court, expert evidence may be deemed inadmissible and never get to the stage of being tested for weight.
1 March Case Updates Roddis v The Queen [2020] EWCA Crim 396, 2020 WL 01250413 Admissibility, Autistic spectrum disorder, Evidence on appeal Relevance: Crime Topic: Autistic spectrum disorder and mens rea Admissibility of evidence on appeal
1 March Case Updates University College London Hospitals Foundation Trust v MB [2020] EWHC 882 (QB), [2020] 4 WLUK 117 Admissibility, Expert evidence, Inpatient Care Relevance: Bed management cases Topic: Discharge of inpatient no longer in need of inpatient care Admissibility of expert evidence Nature of case: An NHS trust brought a claim for possession and applied for an interim injunction against a patient.
1 March Case Updates R v Foy [2020] EWCA Crim 270, 2020 WL 00927442 Admissibility, Behaviour of expert, Psychiatric evidence, Ultimate issue, Criminal “Expert shopping” Relevance: General; criminal Topics: Admissibility of fresh psychiatric evidence; ultimate issue; behaviour of expert