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Martin
Peters
is a criminal lawyer now based in Vancouver, B.C. He has acted for defendants,
patients and practitioners with regards to criminal proceedings. Mr. Peters
has had a great deal of experience in calling practitioners as expert
witnesses. He also is routinely involved in obtaining production orders
for client files or in restraining the granting of such orders.
Kirby Chown is a civil litigator with McCarthy Tetrault
in Toronto. She routinely acts for physicians in civil proceedings and
before the College of Physicians and Surgeons in discipline proceedings.
She has a particular interest in representing psychotherapists in such
proceedings. She deals frequently with experts in the field of psychiatry
and psychotherapy in the context of civil and regulatory proceedings.
Joel Whitton, M.D., Ph.D. is a neuropsychiatrist and
psychotherapist. From 1973 to 1997 he was actively involved in family,
civil and criminal courts, and regulatory proceedings as an expert witness.
He retired from medico-legal work in 1997. His expertise was sought
from Vancouver to Halifax, and in several United States including Minnesota,
Florida and West Virginia. In later years he specialized in sex abuse
issues, and false memory conditions. His retirement is spent mostly
writing, and old friends and colleagues still seek his advice on difficult
therapeutic cases.
Adam
Crabtree, Ph.D. is a member of the faculty of the Centre for
Training in Psychotherapy, Toronto. Among other duties, he instructs
therapists about the form and use of clinical notes. He supervises psychotherapists
whose clients are involved in court cases and has served as expert witness
in regard to psychotherapy in courts in Ontario and Nova Scotia, and
also before the Tribunal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of
Ontario.
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