69 Sask. L. Rev. 401 (2006)
The Top Ten Issues in Law and Psychiatry

handle is hein.journals/sasklr69 and id is 407 raw text is: ASASKATCHEWAN LAW REVIEW The Top Ten Issues in Law and Psychiatry Glen Luther* and Dr. Mansfield Mela** I. Expert Evidence ................................... 403 II. Syndromal Defence with Specific Reference to the Battered Woman Syndrome .................... 408 A. Characterization ................................. 410 B. Relationship with PTSD ........................... 410 C. Conclusions .................................... 411 III. Risk Assessm ent ................................... 412 A. Tools of Actuarial Risk Assessment .................. 413 B. Clinical Risk Assessment .......................... 416 C. Long-term Offender and Dangerous Offender Assessment ............................. 417 IV. The Rise of the Review Board ......................... 418 V. The Fall of the Defence of Automatism? ................ 420 A. R. v. Parks ...................................... 420 B. R. v. Stone ...................................... 420 C. Holistic Approach to Disease of the Mind ............ 421 D. R. v. Graveline .................. ................ 421 E. Acquittal, Hospitalization, or Punishment? ........... 422 F. Protected Statements ............................. 422 VI. Jumping the Queue ................................ 423 A. M ental Health Courts ............................ 423 B. Mazzei v. British Columbia ......................... 424 C. Transferring of NCR Patients ....................... 424 D. Conditional Sentence Supervision .................. 425 VII. The Right to Refuse Treatment ........................ 426 LL.B., LL.M., of the College of Law, University of Saskatchewan. MBBS, FWACP, MRC (Psych.), MSc, FRCPC, of the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. The authors would like to thank the students of the Law and Psychiatry class of 2006. Their enthusiasm for the course and topic was definitely infectious. We would also like to acknowledge the assistance of those that attended the STLA seminar on May 12, 2006. Their subsequent comments and suggestions certainly improved the paper. The remaining errors are of course our responsibility.

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