13 March Case Updates What were the effects of repeated sexual abuse at the hands of a schoolteacher? PTSD, Scotland, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing This case illustrates a number of difficulties for the adult victims of childhood sexual abuse. Diagnoses of psychiatric disorder in childhood have to be made retrospectively. Contemporaneous records may be missing, incomplete or insufficiently detailed. Even where the only adverse childhood experience is the sexual abuse, it is difficult to prove that the victim’s subsequent trajectory in life has been any different to what it would have been but for the sexual abuse. DBAK v The Governors of the Fettes Trust [2026] CSOH 5
15 December Case Updates Michelle Leach v North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 2914 (QB), 2020 WL 06384316 Personal injury, Psychiatry, PTSD, 11. Report Writing, 14. Changing your opinion, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements Topics: Material contribution Post-traumatic stress disorder