From the case of Calocane to the public inquiry that followed, and every other high-profile case in which the media is outraged at a mentally disordered offender “getting away with murder", the subject of diminished responsibility is never out of the newspapers.
It is becoming increasingly difficult to navigate the complexities of mental health, to instruct appropriate experts and to properly represent some of the most dangerous yet most vulnerable people within our society.
In this live webinar, Mary Prior KC, Head of 36 Crime and a criminal barrister with expertise in dealing with mental health defences and defendants, will talk you through the process of preparing these cases for trial, how to avoid common errors, and how to ensure that a mentally disordered offender is properly represented at trial.
This session is aimed at all criminal practitioners, and also any family, civil, employment or immigration solicitors who need to understand what diminished responsibility means in homicide cases.
All Levels – this can be picked up throughout anyone’s professional career regardless of experience
The aim of this session is to provide you with a helpful checklist of all the items which can cause this defence to fail and to provide a strategy as to how to succeed.
It deals with how to navigate responses to mental health disorders and how to ensure that mentally disordered people accused of murder are protected.
This live webinar contains a 45-minute presentation from Mary Prior KC, a 15-minute Q&A session where you can ask any questions you'd like directly to Mary. You can download your own copy of the presentation and resources to refer to during and after the live webinar.
You will be able to actively listen to the course and ask questions to the speaker.
The live webinar begins at 5:00pm.
The £69 +VAT price includes:
- 45-minutes of topical content
- 15-minute interactive Q&A
- Comprehensive lecture notes
- Digital CPD certificate
Of course. To book multiple delegates, increase the amount of tickets you wish to buy and add them to your basket. Once your payment has been processed, you will then be asked to assign the tickets to the delegates attending. Each delegate will then receive an email with instructions on how to finalise their booking
For group booking discounts please get in touch with us on team@formediagroup.co.uk.
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This live webinar provides you with 1 hour of learning.
Attendees will receive a CPD certificate upon completion of this course.
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Mary Prior KC
Mary is an exceptional advocate. She is formidable, hard-working and very down-to-earth. She is tactically very astute and is especially good with vulnerable witnesses.’ Legal 500
‘Mary is one of the best silks around. She is a fantastic advocate – jurors love her. She breaks complex concepts down very easily and enables a jury to follow her arguments with ease. Her client care is also brilliant.’ Legal 500
‘Mary is a strong advocate in front of a jury or in submissions to a judge. From the early outset, she has a clear direction for her cases. All of her work is very well prepared.’ Legal 500
“Mary is an enormously experienced advocate with formidable advocacy skills – she is adept at building a relationship with the jury and dealing with difficult and often vulnerable clients. She has a powerhouse reputation at the Bar” Legal 500
Mary is a jury advocate. She takes hugely complex facts and presents them in a clear and concise way so that juries can understand the evidence. She gains the trust of the most vulnerable witnesses and defendants and enables them to be heard. She is often instructed in difficult and challenging cases, sometimes described as hopeless cases. She has an extremely high success rate in her cases.
In the last three years she has dealt with many cases with national and international media interest. These have included dealing with horrific murders of children which have involved sadistic torture and brutality. She defended one of the defendants in the Court of Appeal’s analysis on whole life murder cases. R v Stewart, Couzens, Tustin, Hughes and Monaghan. She has also received a Chief Crown Prosecutor’s Commendation for her work on the murder of Finley Boden.
Mary has special expertise in questioning children, those with mental and physical health difficulties. She enabled a child with cerebral palsy to give evidence and to be heard. She has a forensic ability to evaluate and consider thousands of pages of bank statements, telephone messages and social media and to enable the jury to consider what matters. She exposes holes and gaps in evidence.
Mary has taken her experience in rape cases to deal with serious multi-complainant sexual offences.
Mary has a busy private practice defending allegations of rape for those whose career or livelihood would be more significantly impacted by a conviction. This has included Doctors, teachers, the clergy and businessmen.
Mary is a sought after lecturer for advocacy and trial strategy. She regularly lectures to Solicitors, to the police and to other agencies.
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