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These case updates are provided by Professor Keith J.B. Rix, BMedBiol (Hons), MPhil, LLM, MD, FRCPsych, Hon FFFLM

Professor Keith Rix is a founding member of the Expert Witness Institute and became a Fellow in 2002. He is a member of the EWI’s Membership Committee. He is Visiting Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, School of Medicine, University of Chester, Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust and Mental Health and Intellectual Disability Lead, Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians.  He has provided expert evidence for over 35 years, including on a pro bono basis in capital cases in the Caribbean and Africa. He is the author of Expert Psychiatric Evidence and a co-editor, with Laurence Mynors-Wallis and Ciaran Craven SC, of the second edition, Rix’s Expert Psychiatric Evidence, which is being published by Cambridge University Press in September 2020. He is also the lead author of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Report CR193 Responsibilities of psychiatrist who provide expert opinion to courts and tribunals.   

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Appeal in the Cause Michael Marshall against Berkshire Hathaway International Insurance Company Limited [2024] SAC (Civ) 13
Sean Mosby
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Appeal in the Cause Michael Marshall against Berkshire Hathaway International Insurance Company Limited [2024] SAC (Civ) 13

The Case

The defender (appellant) was appealing an award of damages of £1,250 made by the sheriff in a personal injury claim following a vehicle accident in which the pursuer’s (respondent’s) vehicle was struck from behind by the defender’s insured while stationary at a traffic light. The sheriff had made the award in the absence of the expert medical evidence which had been held to be inadmissible.

 

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