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Training to be a safe expert to the courts - child mental health expert witness course
Thursday 1 - Friday 2 July 2010
Organiser: Psychiatry Section | Venue: RSM
Two-day course for child mental health professionals that concentrates on the techniques involved in acting as an expert witness.  The course has four components:

Lectures on the law pertaining to children, the role of the mental health professional/receiving instruction, assessing children and assessing parenting and families.

Lectures on presenting an opinion including writing a report and giving evidence.

Seminars based on ‘a case’ - details of a case with a set of instructions are sent to delegates before the meeting.

The mock court -  barristers from a good set of chambers hold mock courts at which each participant is invited to give evidence.