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Assessment of people with intellectual disability for the court: What does a psychiatrist need to know?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

R. Latham
R. Latham*
Affiliation:
East London NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

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This presentation will focus on the importance of psychiatrists understanding that they operate at an interface between two very different disciplines; medicine and law. There will be consideration of what and why psychiatrists need to understand the law, the way it operates and the likely implications of their opinions. There will be consideration of an example from England and Wales to illustrate the way in which psychiatry and law might interpret the same information. The aim is that psychiatrists will be better equipped to face the challenges the law presents.

Disclosure of interest

The author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

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European Psychiatry , Volume 33 , Issue S1: Abstracts of the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry , March 2016 , pp. S38
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Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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