The judges heard the joint current view of two psychiatric experts - Professor Thomas Fahy and Professor Declan Murphy - was that Mr McKinnon's suicide risk was "moderate".

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So from a planning and compliance view point joint filing seems like a no brainer.

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Especially in view of their holding joint naval exercises with Russia for the first time, and in view of Russia providing most of their non-domestic energy supplies.

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