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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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Thimmaya v Lancashire NHS Foundation Trust [2020] 1 WLUK 437
Simon Berney-Edwards
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Thimmaya v Lancashire NHS Foundation Trust [2020] 1 WLUK 437

Nature of case: An NHS Trust sought a third party costs order against an expert witness, a consultant spinal surgeon, who had been engaged as an expert witness by the claimant in clinical negligence proceedings. At trial, the expert had been unable to articulate the test to be applied in determining breach of duty in clinical negligence cases and was not fit to give evidence due to his mental health problems.

 

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