Psychiatric and Neuropsychological Evidence in Civil Litigation

This book is essential for: civil litigation counsel, in particular, personal injury counsel, both plaintiff and defence; lawyers practicing in the areas of workers' compensation law, employment law, and family law will also find this book valuable.

Current to: January 2013

Mind over matter—turn your mind to what really matters with psychiatric and neuropsychological evidence!
Psychiatric and neuropsychological injuries can give rise to some of the most complex and challenging expert evidence arising in civil litigation. Such injuries occur in a wide range of circumstances: from motor vehicle and other accidents, to assaults, to toxic work environments to medical malpractice. Claims for psychological and psychiatric injury routinely give rise to complex issues of proof: issues relating to legal and scientific causation, foreseeability, prognosis, and diagnosis. This comprehensive publication will bring litigation counsel quickly up to speed on psychiatric and neuropsychological evidence and the theoretical and practical issues surrounding its presentation in civil claims: the forensic medical expert, attacking expert witnesses, a medical perspective of cross-examination of psychiatrists and neuropsychologists.

Course Materials Coordinators
Dr. Roy J. O'Shaughnessy — Clinical Professor, Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of BC, Vancouver
Catherine L. Woods, QC — Guild Yule LLP, Vancouver

CLEBC Program Lawyer
Raymond Lee
rlee@cle.bc.ca