22 November Case Updates Re BU [2021] EWCOP 54 Psychology, Psychiatry, Capacity to marry, Capacity to contact, Coercive control, Capacity to enter civil partnership, 05. Rules and Regulations, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Psychiatry Psychology
15 June Case Updates NB v MI [2021] EWHC 224 (Fam) Capacity cases, Psychology, Psychiatry, Capacity to marry, Wisdom, 05. Rules and Regulations 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.