Insights
Articles for Scottish solicitors on the standards and practice of psychiatric expert evidence — report structure, causation and apportionment, chronic pain, testamentary capacity and the appropriate use of remote assessment.
Articles
- Remote psychiatric assessments: when appropriate
- The considerations that determine whether a psychiatric medico-legal assessment can properly be conducted by video, and when an in-person examination is required.
- Testamentary capacity: retrospective assessment
- How a psychiatrist reasons retrospectively to an opinion on testamentary capacity where the testator cannot now be examined, and what that requires of the instruction.
- Instructing an expert in chronic pain cases
- How chronic pain and medically unexplained symptoms are approached in psychiatric expert evidence, and how to frame an instruction so the right questions are answered.
- Causation and apportionment in psychiatric injury claims
- How a psychiatric expert reasons through causation, material contribution and apportionment where a pursuer has a pre-existing psychiatric history or a competing stressor.
- What a psychiatric expert report should contain
- The structure a Scottish court expects of psychiatric expert evidence, and the five omissions that most often invite criticism when a report is tested at proof.
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