Past Events

Essentials: Assessing Fitness To Plead and Fitness To Be Interviewed

Date: Thursday 26 April 2012

Location: Weetwood Hall Conference Centre, Otley Road, Leeds LS16 5PS

Presented by: Dr Jim Isherwood, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and Medical Director, North Yorkshire and York Community Mental Health Services and; Malcolm Taylor, Special Casework Lawyer, Yorkshire and Humberside Complex Case Unit, Crown Prosecution Service

This seminar is designed to enable you to understand the difference between the assessments of fitness to be interviewed by the police and fitness to plead in court. The aim of this seminar is to enable fair, robust and legal procedures on behalf of mentally disordered detainees and allow you to give reliable evidence in court.