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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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North Bristol NHS Trust v R [2023] EWCOP 5
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North Bristol NHS Trust v R [2023] EWCOP 5

“Capacity to consent to elective Caesarean section”

The case: An application for declarations that R lacked capacity to decide whether or not her unborn baby should be delivered pre-term by elective Caesarean section and that an elective Caesarean section at 34 weeks was in her best interests.

 

 

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