According to a report on Mental Health and Justice chaired by Sir David Latham around one in four adults in the UK are diagnosed with a mental illness during their lifetime and …
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In this day and age, most medical professionals are inundated with work. This is a fact in the mental health field probably more than others. With the increasing awareness and …
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“There were no real demons, no talking dogs, no satanic henchmen. I made it all up via my wild imagination so as to find some form of justification for my …
It is interesting that the question of the accused being unfit is dealt with using the 1836 criteria of R v. Pritchard. In Pritchard, the accused was deaf, unable to speak …
In R v Turner (1975) 60 Cr. App. R. 80, Lawton LJ stated: “…the fact that an expert witness has impressive scientific qualifications does not by that fact alone make …