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A Practical Guide to Factitious Illness in Care Proceedings

A Practical Guide to Factitious Illness in Care Proceedings

Name: A Practical Guide to Factitious Illness in Care Proceedings
Brand: Law Brief Publishing
SKU: 9781914608421
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Author: Sharan Bhachu
ISBN: 9781914608421

By Sharan Bhachu

Law Brief Publishing April 2023

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ISBN-13: 9781914608421
Publisher: Law Brief Publishing
Publication: April 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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A focused practical guide for advocates dealing with cases that involve FII, providing an understanding of the different definitions and terms. Helpful advice and guidance in how to draft thresholds with emphasis on the case law and how the complex and case specific issues that arise in such cases can be dealt with and managed, alongside analysis of the pitfalls and areas of difficulties that also can arise.

Chapter One – Defining Factitious Illness Disorders

Introduction

Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)

Perplexing presentations

Other factitious disorders

– Malingering

– Somatic symptom disorders (SSD)

Summary

Chapter Two – How Do FII Cases Fit Within Care Proceedings: Pre-Proceedings

Perplexing Presentations (PP) / Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII) in Children RCPCH Guidance

– Alerting signs

– Health and Education Rehabilitation Plans

– Responsible Consultant and Named and Designated professionals

– Record keeping and Chronologies

Safeguarding Children in whom illness is fabricated or induced’ – The 2008 Guidance

Summary

Chapter Three – Threshold and Fact-Finding

Recognition of which type of FII is involved

Preparation of the papers

Pleading of thresholds and schedule of findings

Further legal considerations

Covert Recordings

– Recordings by parents/carers

– Covert Video Surveillance

– Intimate Images

Expert assessment

Summary

Chapter Four – Post-Fact Finding

Harm to children

What now?

Summary

Conclusion

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