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Tag: Intermediaries

Get the latest news and insight from the Public Defender Service about the use of intermediaries for autistic defendants and other vulnerable clients.

Your client, intermediaries and ‘invisible’ Autism

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Here’s a question that we regularly deal with as solicitors or advocates: is it possible my client needs an intermediary?

What is neurodiversity

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People who are neurodivergent may have a condition to which s4 Criminal Procedure (Insanity) Act 1964 and the Pritchard criteria apply. Neurodivergence may also be relevant to full and partial defences such as insanity, diminished responsibility or duress and to the mens rea of certain offences.