Book contents
- Rix’s Expert Psychiatric Evidence
- Reviews
- Rix’s Expert Psychiatric Evidence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Online Appendices – See Inside Cover for Access
- Contributors
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements and Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements and Preface to the First Edition
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes and Directives
- Table of Statutory Instruments and Regulations
- Table of Practice Directions
- Table of Codes of Conduct, Guidance, Conventions and Protocols
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 The Expert Medical Witness
- Chapter 2 Courts, Laws and Procedures
- Chapter 3 Training, Development and the Maintenance of Expertise
- Chapter 4 Business Matters
- Chapter 5 The Medicolegal Consultation
- Chapter 6 The Report, Amendments, Answers to Questions, Experts’ Meetings and Conferences
- Chapter 7 Reports for Criminal Proceedings and in Prison Cases
- Chapter 8 Reports in Personal Injury Cases
- Chapter 9 Reports for Family Proceedings Relating to Children
- Chapter 10 Reports in Cases Involving Capacity Issues
- Chapter 11 Reports for the First-tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Mental Health
- Chapter 12 Reports in Immigration and Asylum Cases
- Chapter 13 Reports in Employment, Disability Discrimination and Pension Cases
- Chapter 14 Reports for Fitness to Practise, Conduct and Performance Proceedings
- Chapter 15 Reports for Coroners Courts and Fatal Accident Inquiries
- Chapter 16 How to Read an Expert Medical Report
- Chapter 17 Going to Court
- Book part
- References
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Chapter 5 - The Medicolegal Consultation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2021
- Rix’s Expert Psychiatric Evidence
- Reviews
- Rix’s Expert Psychiatric Evidence
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Online Appendices – See Inside Cover for Access
- Contributors
- Foreword to the Second Edition
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Acknowledgements and Preface to the Second Edition
- Acknowledgements and Preface to the First Edition
- Table of Cases
- Table of Statutes and Directives
- Table of Statutory Instruments and Regulations
- Table of Practice Directions
- Table of Codes of Conduct, Guidance, Conventions and Protocols
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 The Expert Medical Witness
- Chapter 2 Courts, Laws and Procedures
- Chapter 3 Training, Development and the Maintenance of Expertise
- Chapter 4 Business Matters
- Chapter 5 The Medicolegal Consultation
- Chapter 6 The Report, Amendments, Answers to Questions, Experts’ Meetings and Conferences
- Chapter 7 Reports for Criminal Proceedings and in Prison Cases
- Chapter 8 Reports in Personal Injury Cases
- Chapter 9 Reports for Family Proceedings Relating to Children
- Chapter 10 Reports in Cases Involving Capacity Issues
- Chapter 11 Reports for the First-tier Tribunal (Health, Education and Social Care Chamber) Mental Health
- Chapter 12 Reports in Immigration and Asylum Cases
- Chapter 13 Reports in Employment, Disability Discrimination and Pension Cases
- Chapter 14 Reports for Fitness to Practise, Conduct and Performance Proceedings
- Chapter 15 Reports for Coroners Courts and Fatal Accident Inquiries
- Chapter 16 How to Read an Expert Medical Report
- Chapter 17 Going to Court
- Book part
- References
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
In cases involving medical issues, the medicolegal consultation, comprising history-taking and examination, supplemented sometimes by tests or investigations and, wherever possible, information from an informant, lies at the heart of the process of assisting the court. It provides the psychiatric expert with the opportunity to use training, skill and experience to explore by effective questioning the subject’s symptoms, in the context of their family, personal and medical history and personality, and, through careful observation of the physical and mental state, to assess their current condition. The consultation requires the highest standards and should be conducted with an awareness and understanding of the potential effects of the proceedings on the subject.
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- Rix's Expert Psychiatric Evidence , pp. 65 - 72Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020