Mental health issues for children are increasing at a rapid rate. Since just before the advent of the COVID global pandemic in 2020, the number of mental health referrals for children has tripled. This is an all-time high. This is a very sad indictment of the times that we live in. The mental health crisis […]
Generally, it is a matter for the Courts whether a witness may be classified as an expert or not. In practice an expert is ‘a person with either professional or technical knowledge, whose opinion will be of value’. Expertise may be acquired in a wide variety of contexts, not necessarily academic ones, or wholly […]
I ADMIT to the fact that the timing of this article has a tinge of dramatic irony about it, falling so contingent as it does to International Women’s Day (March 8) and National Justice Week, which begins on March 5. The subject of such irony? The fact that, in the UK, a woman cannot be […]
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