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Can Mental Health Issues Impact on How A Case is Run?

Yes. Sometimes a client is mentally ill and unfit to plead – in other words, they have a mental impairment which would not allow them to have a fair trial. Psychiatric proof is required to establish that they are unfit to stand trial. Both the Crown and the Defence have the opportunity of obtaining this specialist medical evidence.

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