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
- References
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2021
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
- References
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