15 February Case Updates R v Weldemaryam [2020] EWCA Crim 1616 Psychiatry, 10. Report Writing Relevance: Psychiatry Issues: Hybrid orders Culpability
15 February Case Updates AMDC v AG [2020] EWCOP 58, 2020 WL 06749202 Psychiatry, Capacity assessment, 10. Report Writing, 13. Changing your opinion, 06. Receiving Instructions Relevance: Psychiatry Capacity assessments Topic: Assessment of capacity
28 January News Peter Morton shares this alert which considers two recent English court judgments providing important guidance impacting expert evidence, first as regards conflicts of interest and, second, as regards the risks of an award being challenged for serious irregularity upon a misapplication by the tribunal of a model agreed between quantum experts for assessing damages. Guidance from the English Court on Experts' Conflicts of Interests 05. Rules and Regulations, 02. Setting Fees and Getting Paid, 06. Receiving Instructions
11 January Case Updates Petrovics v Prosecutor Generals Office of Hungary [2020] EWHC 3145 (Admin), 2020 WL 06811869 Extradition, Medical expert, 10. Report Writing, 13. Changing your opinion Topics: Uncorroborated history Assumed facts
11 January Case Updates Farookh v Judge of the Saarbrucken Regional Court (Germany) [2020] EWHC 3143 (Admin), 2020 WL 06811821 Psychology, Extradition, Clinical psychology, 10. Report Writing Topic: Suicide risk The case: The Appellant was aged 21 and wanted for extradition to Germany. He was assessed by Dr Arthur Anderson, a Consultant Clinical Psychologist.
11 January Case Updates Davies v Ford [2020] EWHC 3063 (Ch), 2020 WL 06947674 Qualification, 06. Receiving Instructions Topic: Qualifications The case: The second defendant wanted to adduce expert evidence from a waste management expert in the quantum trial of the claim.
11 January Case Updates Omooba v Michael Garrett Associates Ltd (T/A Global Artists), Leicester Theatre Trust Ltd 2020 WL 06947454 10. Report Writing, 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, CV Topics: Duty of expert Range of reasonable opinion Relevant expertise Bias
11 January Case Updates R v Nelson (Keith) [2020] EWCA Crim 1615 Psychiatry, 05. Rules and Regulations, 10. Report Writing Topics: Hybrid orders Hospital orders with restrictions
11 January Case Updates ZZZ v Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWHC 1642 (QB), 2019 WL 03069006 Orthopedic surgery, 10. Report Writing Topics: Owning up to and correcting mistakes Experience Legal tests
11 January Case Updates Morrison v Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust [2020] EWHC 91 (QB), 2020 WL 00410775 Clinical negligence, 10. Report Writing Topic: Analysis of evidence The case: An obstetric negligence case in which there was an issue as to possible competing priorities on the ward on the night in question.