General Principals
- Parking your Prejudices
- Client Instructed Advocacy – not paternalism
- Setting Boundaries – Professionalism – not the client’s puppet
- Protecting your own mental health in the process
The Criminal Accused
- Special considerations in the fitness context
- Pleading NCR – an informed decision – documenting instructions
- Review Board proceedings – expert representation before expert tribunals
Civil Committal and Consent and Capacity Proceedings
- Is the client capable to instruct you?
- Advocating the client’s position without hesitation or reservation
- What if you know the client is going to hurt someone or hurt himself if you win?
- The client who has escaped a lawful detention – what is your responsibility?
