Description
| Product ID: | 9781911623687 |
| Product Form: | Multiple-component retail product |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Rix's Expert Psychiatric Evidence |
| Authors: | Author: Ciaran Craven, Laurence Mynors-Wallis, Keith Rix |
| Page Count: | 438 |
| Subjects: | Psychiatry, Psychiatry |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Resources for the expert psychiatric witness, novice or experienced, who seeks to assist the administration of justice. Rix''s Expert Psychiatric Evidence is a resource manual and guide for psychiatrists who provide expert testimony. It covers the entire expert psychiatric witness journey, from training and negotiation of instructions, through medicolegal assessment, report preparation, experts'' meetings and joint statements, and conferences with counsel, to giving evidence in court along with advice on keeping up to date. Introductory chapters include essential information on the law of expert evidence and the different procedures in the criminal, civil, family and coroners'' courts. It now includes in depth information on all eight jurisdictions of the British Isles. It is richly illustrated with reported and unreported cases including many important ones from the previous ten years, particularly relating to vulnerable witnesses and defendants. The book is supplemented by a library of online letters, forms, a new format report template and other documents which can be downloaded and adapted by readers for their own use. |
| Imprint Name: | RCPsych/Cambridge University Press |
| Publisher Name: | RCPsych/Cambridge University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-12-10 |
