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Tarasoff and the duty to warn third parties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Mark Turner*
Affiliation:
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry
Michael Kennedy
Affiliation:
Department of Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry
*
Correspondence
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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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