PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mental Health Court, Dementia, Binomial Theorem
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Week #9 lecture #7: monday november 09, 2015. Fitness to stand trial: ii methods for assessing fitness to stand trial. Canadian legal criteria for fitness to stand trial: taylor criteria: unable on account of a mental disorder to: Have to have mental disorder, doesn"t matter which one, doesn"t have to be psychiatric can be neurological (overdose on heroin) But rarely if pro deems fit that lawyer will deem unfit. If counsel can"t get instruction from client, then deem unfit. Even if mental disorder specialist deem unfit, lawyer get final say: understand nature & object of the proceedings, understand possible consequences of proceedings, communicate with counsel. But have to be expert to come up with diagnosis. For fitness it doesn"t matter what the diagnosis it, as long a mental disorder exist. Hard to do research on validity of informal interviews. In a lot of cases, it"s a matter of fit or unfit. Need to be expert if it"s in-between.
