We are regularly instructed to prepare medicolegal reports on a variety of issues including but not limited to:
- Assessments in police custody and for bail
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Fitness to be interviewed
- Fitness to plead and stand trial
- Homicide, arson and serious sexual offences
- Diminished responsibility
- Infanticide
- Insanity
- Automatism
- Intent
- Loss of control
- Duress and coercion
- Failure to provide a specimen
- Sentencing issues
- Part 3 of the Mental Health Act
- Mitigation
- Community orders with specified requirements
- Risk assessment and Dangerousness
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Appeals
- Parole board reports/hearings