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  • Home
  • Syllabus
  • Topic Summaries
    • Ethical Guidelines
    • Duty to the Court
    • Report Requirements
    • Fitness to be Interviewed
    • Public Interest in Prosecution
    • Remand to hospital
    • Fitness to Plead and Stand Trial
    • The vulnerable defendant and reasonable adjustments
    • Extradition
    • Insanity
    • Automatism
    • Capacity to Form Mens Rea
    • Mistaken Belief
    • Self-Defence
    • Duress
    • Joint Enterprise
    • Loss of Control
    • Diminished Responsibility
    • Culpability/Mitigation
    • Assessment of Dangerousness
    • Community Orders
    • Hospital Orders
  • Resources
    • Sources of Guidance for Expert Witnesses
    • Courses
    • Key Articles
  • About

Topic Summaries

These provide a summary of key psycho-legal issues, as relates to the law in England. For further detail, please see Sources of Guidance for Experts.

Medical experts are not expected to have an encyclopedic knowledge of case law, but a broad understanding can guide what the focus of the court may be on.

Acting as an Expert Witness

Ethical Guidelines
Duty to the Court
Report Requirements

Pre-Trial

Fitness to be Interviewed
Public Interest in Prosecution
Remand to Hospital
Fitness to Plead
and Stand Trial
The Vulnerable Defendant and Reasonable Adjustments
Extradition

Trial

Insanity
Automatism
Capacity to Form Mens Rea
Mistaken Belief
Self-Defence
Duress
Joint Enterprise
Loss of Control
Diminished Responsibility

Sentencing

Culpability/Mitigation
Assessment of Dangerousness
Community Orders
Hospital Orders

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