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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.   

Case Updates

R v Dunleavy [2021] EWCA Crim 39
Case Updates

R v Dunleavy [2021] EWCA Crim 39

Issues:             Admissibility of expert evidence

                        Autistic spectrum disorder

                        Theory of mind

                        Admissibility of evidence

                        Mens rea

                        Appeal

Z v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust [2020] EWCOP 69
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Z v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust [2020] EWCOP 69

Relevance:      General

                        Neurology

 

Topics:            Records

                        Consent to examination

                        Substance of all material instructions

                        Qualified opinion

The Government of the United States of America v Assange (2020) Westminster Magistrates’ Court
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The Government of the United States of America v Assange (2020) Westminster Magistrates’ Court

‘Those bloody books’

 

Relevance:            General

                              Psychiatry

 

Topics:                   Extradition

                              Impartiality

                              Duty to court

                              Suicide risk

                              Autistic spectrum disorder

MN v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1746
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MN v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2020] EWCA Civ 1746

Relevance:       Medical

                        Psychiatry

                        Forensic medicine

 

Topics:            Ultimate issue

                        Credibility

                        Clinical plausibility

                        Trafficking

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