Psychiatry Injury in UK Law
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Is Expert Witness Immunity About To Be Abolished? A Case Note On 'Paul Wynne Jones v Sue Kaney' [2010] EWHC 61 (QB)
... ... provided negligent opinion evidence when she acted as Mr Jones' psychiatry expert in a previous personal injury claim arising out of a road traffic ... ...
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as a Risk Factor for Dementia
Traumatic brain injuries are considered risk factors for other neurologic diseases such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and epilepsy. A recently published, British Journal of Psychiatry article d...
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New Study Debunks Claim that Neuroplasticity is a Myth—the Later the Onset of Mild TBI, the Worse the Outcome
The theory of neuroplasticity holds that the brain will change and adapt to different conditions including to childhood injuries. This theory is often challenged and sometimes referred to as a “myt...
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Judgment In CDE V Buckinghamshire County Council
... ... issues of breach (social work) and causation (psychiatry); both, it ... was said, being necessary in order to plead the claim ... necessary in all cases to annex a full report on injury at the ... stage of service of Particulars (Mark v Universal Coatings and ... ...
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Mild Traumatic Brain Injury And Dementia ' Court Confirms Still No Causal Link
... ... cardiologist but the parties obtained their own evidence in the ... fields of neurology and psychiatry. The experts for the claimants ... were Dr Steven Allder (neurologist) and Professor Elliott ... (psychiatrist). The experts for the defendant were ... ...
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Claimant's "fundamental Dishonesty" Debars All Of '3 Million Damages Claim
... ... claim for a Non-Freezing Cold Injury (NFCI) was occasioned by the ... defendant's breach of duty and was worth ... chronic pain and psychiatry ... The court was told of several instances - some captured on ... video ... ...
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