Rural land & property advice • Farm business management • Freehold valuations & sales • Estate management & lettings • Rental valuations • Compensation for compulsory purchase • Pipelines & wayleaves • Forestry • Equestrian properties • Agricultural, forestry & environmental grants • Agricultural law, including Agricultural Holdings Act 1986, Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995, Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981, Town & Country Planning Act 1990, as amended by the Planning & Compensation Act 1991 • Management agreements

Rural Chartered Surveyor providing expert witness & litigation support services. Specialist areas: • Agricultural Holdings Act end of tenancy claims • Agricultural banking & finance • Agricultural insolvency • Agricultural Land Tribunal • Agricultural tenancy disputes & arbitrations • Estate management • Farm business management • Farm & rural property valuations • Milk quota, including Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations apportionments • Partnership dissolution & disputes • Property planning & development • Boundary & ...

Rural Practice Chartered Surveyor, Land Agent & Agricultural Valuer • Valuation of freehold property • Valuation of live & dead farming stock • Farm business management • Crop loss claims • Agricultural holdings: rent review arbitrations • Agricultural land tribunal: succession • Tenant right • Compensation for roads, pipelines, etc.

Rural & agricultural property: • Agricultural landlord & tenant disputes, Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995 & Agricultural Holdings Act 1986 • Rent reviews, notice to quit & remedy of breaches of terms of tenancies • Valuations of farm & rural property • Freehold & tenancy valuations • Rental & capital valuations • Compulsory purchases & compensation • Divorce • Family disputes • Partnership & company valuations • Inheritance & capital gains tax valuations • Leasehold enfranchisement • Valuation for insolvency & ...

Valuation of agricultural & rural properties • Agricultural tenancies • Farming partnerships • Milk quotas • Boundary disputes

Boundary & other property disputes • Valuation (capital, rental, for all purposes), especially rural & agricultural property • Compensation, especially roads & pipelines • Agricultural law, landlord & tenant • Rural planning

Small animal forensic veterinary medicine & surgery, including cruelty & neglect cases of cats, dogs, small mammals & birds • Dangerous dogs & their control • Practising veterinary surgeon for over 30 years • Considerable experience with the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 & the Animal Welfare Act 2006 • Regularly giving evidence in cases brought by the RSPCA, the police & other prosecuting authorities

Forensic entomology • Animal welfare regarding ectoparasitic diseases of livestock & companion animals • Ageing of animal carcasses through faunal succession

Animal behaviour & welfare • Behaviour & temperament assessment of dogs • Aspects of dog behaviour in general • The human-animal bond • Attitudes to animals • Animals in human housing • Role of animals for physical & emotional health of humans of many groups, e.g. elderly, children • Companion animal welfare • Senior lecturer in animal behaviour, human-animal interactions & companion animal behaviour counselling • Member of Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors • UK Registry of Canine Behaviourists • Dog ...

Bryan Hallows is an experienced veterinary expert witness • Experience of civil & criminal cases, magistrates' & crown courts, as well as single joint expert reports • Of particular interest are welfare cases (all species), equine clinical appraisals & equine pre-purchase examinations • Experienced as a commercial mediator (veterinary & non-veterinary) • Bryan will discuss potential cases informally ...

Canine behaviour & training • Police dog handling & training • National Police Dog Assessment Model • Companion animal behaviour problems • Dangerous dogs legislation • Dog assessment • Dog bites • Accredited Police Explosives Search Dog Instructor awarded by Home Office 19 July 1996 • Accredited Police Dog Instructor awarded by Home Office 6 March 1992 • Accredited by the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour • Member of the Association of Pet Behaviour Counsellors

All matters of building society practice • Mortgage lending practices • Imprudent lending • Lending policies & their application • Consumer credit matters • Extortionate credit bargains & lending practices • Fraud • Experienced single joint expert

Construction: • Building • Civil • Mechanical & electrical • Petrochemical • Marine • Contracts: • Building, civil & mechanical & electrical standard forms, including FIDIC & Corps of Engineers derivatives • Charter parties, joint ventures, alliance & other bespoke forms • Project & construction management: • Building, civil, mechanical & electrical, offshore, marine, LNG, chemical plant, refineries • Facilities management: • Claims production & refutation, including insurance claims • ...

Specialist in all types of mortgage lending & collections, personal banking, commercial & consumer finance • Experienced in cases of best advice, fraud, extortionate credit, contributory negligence & all matters of good practice, policies & procedures for marketing, investigating, underwriting, creating, collecting & recovering loans • Current hands-on experience of managing arrears, third party administration, counselling, field services & bad debt collections • Portfolio valuations & investigations conducted

Banking • Structured finance • Corporate & international taxation • Fraud • Company management • Corporate governance • Special purpose vehicles ...

A former bank director and consultant to banks and others now engaged in the arrangement of finance, I specialise in disputes involving: ...

Banking • General enquiries • Operations • Disputes • Personal guarantees • Security items • Lending • Insolvency-related matters • Fraud & money laundering

GBRW Expert Witness incorporates the business of Associated Insurance Experts. The combined practice has access to more than 180 associates, who can cover almost all areas of the financial services field, including commercial, retail and investment banking, investment management, insurance and reinsurance (broking and underwriting), pensions, stockbroking, trading, derivatives, commodities and HR disputes. ...

Banking, finance & risk assessment expert • Corporate & commercial bank lending & procedures • Credit & risk assessment • Intensive care, insolvency & debt recovery • Corporate finance • Syndications • Venture capital • Mortgages • Factoring • Invoice discounting & business development • Expert reports have covered: • Fraud • Financial documentation • Professional & bank/building society contributory negligence • Lending • Recovery • Bank security • Trade finance • Stand by letters of credit • Covenant valuation • Relationship management

Architect's appointment: practice, international contracts, fees, professional negligence • Building contracts & subcontracts: obligations, delay, disruption, extensions of time, architect's instructions, certificates, practical completion, partial possession, liability • Building technology & construction: failures in materials, workmanship & design • Scott schedules • Intellectual property: architectural copyright • Town & Country Planning Act appeals • Public Inquiries • Adjudication • ADR • Mediation

Experience in architectural practice both pre-contract & post-contract with particular reference to terms of appointment & construction methods & detailing • A detailed knowledge of building regulations involving legislation & building contracts • A member of the RIBA panel of adjudicators • A wide knowledge of landscape contracting disputes as a Director of Deberris Landscapes Ltd • Experience in preparation of reports under legal instruction as an expert both prior to issuing of proceedings & court ...

Building surveying • Expert in all aspects of building litigation, including defective construction, including, but not exclusively, drains, cavity walls, mortar, brickwork, roofs, floors, drainage, windows, dampness, condensation, concrete • Valuation for interim or final accounts • Advice on building contracts • Professional negligence • Whether a house is built to NHBC Building Regulations or Building Guarantee Standards • Party wall awards • Expert reports & advice • Compliant with CPR ...

Building pathology • Disrepair claims • Party Wall Act • Dilapidations • Building conversions • New-build buildings • Building renovation • Building restoration ...

Building regulations • Fire safety risk assessment • Fire regulations • Timberframe fire safety

Civil engineering, building, utilities, heavy rail, metros & tunnelling • Contractor, subcontractor & client side negotiations • Claims handling & dispute resolution under standard, PPP/PFI & bespoke forms of contract • Two stage, negotiated & traditional competitive tendering processes • Standards & quantum analysis, extension of time evaluation, construction site accident assessments ...

Child & adult assessment • Head injury • Neuropsychological evaluation • Accident claims • Children Act 1989 work • Adopting & fostering • Learning difficulties & dyslexia • Child mental health • Adolescent mental health • 1981 & 1993 Education Act work • Post-traumatic stress disorder ...

Child & adult assessment • Head injury • Neuropsychological evaluation • Accident claims • Children Act 1989 work • Adopting & fostering • Learning difficulties & dyslexia • Child mental health • Adolescent mental health • 1981 & 1993 Education Act work • Post-traumatic stress disorder ...

Consultant Paediatrician (26 years), based at The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow • Extensive experience in all aspects of general paediatrics • Special interests: • Acute/emergency care & the recognition & management of the acutely ill child • Telephone medicine • Child abuse & neglect • Expert witness: • Child abuse • GP & hospital doctor care of acutely ill children • Telephone triage (NHS Direct, etc.) • Many years' experience of medico-legal opinions & reports relating to all aspects of ...

All matters pertaining to adult general psychiatry • Special interest in drug- & alcohol-related issues & those involving putative automatism • Experience in assessing perpetrators of sexual abuse • Regular involvement in the assessment of adults in Children Act cases • Regular involvement in the assessment & diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder

We specialise in the preparation of personal injury, medical negligence and quantum reports following assessment of the functional ability of your client. Specialist consultants are available nationwide with expertise and experience of dealing with all ages and client groups. Tania Brown has extensive experience of preparing expert reports for clients with traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries, as well as complex orthopaedic injuries including amputation. ...

I work alongside Dr Ray Roth PhD MSc BA(Hons)Psychol SROT, Clinical Specialist Practitioner, and Maria Farrar RN(LD) BSc(Hons) DipCCEd FTh(Int), Specialist Mental Health Practitioner, as a multidisciplinary team in the medico-legal arena. We write independent expert psychiatric reports on children & give evidence in court as appropriate. Fields of expertise cover both criminal & civil cases, the latter mostly around Children Act legislation & complex child care, placement & abuse issues, with ...

Care proceedings • Professional negligence • Adoption • Social work assessment & care management • Management & delivery of social care services • Community care of adults • Family assessment

30 years' post-qualification experience in child & family assessments • Child protection, including physical, emotional & sexual abuse • Parenting assessments of people with learning difficulties, mental health difficulties & substance misuse problems • Family mediation • Assessment in contact & residence disputes

SYTECH specialise in providing expert witness forensics services in cases of serious crime. Our services are tailored to identify the key elements of evidence that provide the most effective results within funding limits. Results of investigations are presented in a clear manner to highlight the issues relevant to the client's case, expressed in terms that avoid rebuttal by the other side. ...

As an expert in complex computer systems and mobile phones I am highly experienced in all types of investigation from indecent image cases through to cases involving complex networked systems and processes, convoluted conspiracy cases and highly detailed IT contract disputes. I am experienced in producing expert reports and providing oral testimony to Bond Solon standards. I lecture on a university Digital Forensics MSc degree programme and provide lectures to barrister chambers on related ...

We provide forensic investigation and expert witness services in all civil and criminal cases involving computer, Internet and mobile phone-related evidence. We have been instructed in high-profile cases and can provide a great many barrister and solicitor recommendations upon request. We are highly experienced in producing expert reports and providing oral testimony to Bond Solon standards. We provide lectures on digital forensics to barrister chambers and universities and speak at national ...

Expert witness in proceedings under The Children Act 1989 • Recent reports have addressed: • Assessment of attachment, quality of attachment & effect of separation • Assessment of parenting • Impact on children of parental drug use & related behaviour • Impact on children of parental violence • Sibling attachment & placement decisions • Family dynamics & ability to change • Contact disputes • Therapeutic assessments, including potential for change

Neuropsychological assessments • Parenting assessments • Assessment of cognitive & intellectual abilities • Sexual abuse & risk assessments • Mental health & mental capacity assessments • Disability assessments • Drug use & addiction • Occupational stress & depression • Offender assessment & fitness to plead • Performance & fitness to work assessments • Equality, diversity & human rights • Recruitment & selection • Children Act • Employment Tribunals • Unfair dismissal • Expertise working with black & minority ethnic communities ...

Personal injury & fatal accidents, including loss of income & profits, loss of pension rights, loss of dependency & Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme cases • Financial services, including Financial Services Act compliance & regulatory aspects of litigation • Business disputes, including shareholder disputes, employee benefits & purchase & sales disputes • Loss of profits & consequential loss, including business interruption, intellectual property & intangible assets & product ...

Forensic accountant specialising in crime & proceeds of crime, including theft (including theft from employer), fraud (including mortgage fraud & benefit fraud), money laundering & confiscation (under Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 & earlier legislation) • Preparing expert witness reports & giving evidence in Crown Court, Magistrates' Court or High Court

Forensic accounting • Money laundering • Proceeds of crime & confiscation • Investigations including tax & VAT • Fraud • Asset tracing • Fraudulent trading & director's disqualification • Theft • Drug trafficking • False accounting • Personal injury • Fatal accident claims • Loss of earnings • Loss of pension rights • Loss of profits • Loss of future earnings • Matrimonial • Valuations • Assistance with Form E • Pension splitting • Professional negligence • Fee disputes • Dispute resolution • Director & shareholder disputes • S459 claims • ...

Expert evidence, advice & determinations on accounting matters regarding: • Breaches of contract & warranty • Completion accounts • Commercial, shareholder, partnership & matrimonial disputes • Business interruption & loss of profits • Personal injury • Dependency & negligence claims • Compulsory purchase & disputed business valuations • Security for costs applications • Theft, false accounting & fraud investigations • Proceeds of Crime Act matters • Disputes under the provisions of the Companies Acts

Professional negligence • Tax investigations • PAYE & VAT fraud • Income tax & capital gains tax planning • Corporate tax planning • Business structures (partnerships, limited companies & LLPs) • Shareholder & partnership disputes • Business, company & share valuations • Matrimonial disputes • Commercial disputes • Business interruption & loss of profits claims • Personal injury, loss of earnings & fatal accident claims • Directors' conduct & disqualification • Companies Act issues • Criminal matters • Confiscation ...

Director & Service Leader to BDO Stoy Hayward LLP's forensic accounting practice in Scotland • Almost 20 years' experience of providing oral and written evidence with a wide range of assignments, including business interruption, breach of contract, personal injury and professional negligence claims, share and business valuation disputes, completion accounts and warranty disputes and investigative experience (insider dealing, fraud, accounting misstatement, regulatory issues) • Has given evidence ...

Forensic accounting, including: • Litigation support & expert witness • Professional negligence • Commercial disputes • Breach of contracts & /or warranties • Compulsory purchase orders • Competition disputes • Loss of profits calculations • Loss of chance • Professional negligence, accountants • Partnership disputes • Commercial disputes • Expert determination • CEDR Solve Mediator

Electrical & electronic design • Electronic devices & systems • Telephone systems • Radio systems • Electrical engineering • Electrical accident investigation • Electric shock cases • Electrical power installations • Gaming machines • Surveillance & tracking devices

Computer & information security, computer disputes • PCs, networks & mainframe systems • Computer forensics to secure, preserve, recover & analyse data on disk • Network forensics to analyse data traffic • Internet forensics to reconstruct events & associated time-lines • Hacking, computer-related fraud, internet crime • Data interception issues • Internet-based disputes • E-commerce issues • Contractual & performance disputes • Computing in financial services • Risk analysis for insurers • Loss analysis for insurance ...

Securing electronic evidence from computers, handheld devices & related magnetic media on & off site • Examination of evidence, recovering deleted files & data hidden to ordinary users • Date & time analysis of computer activity (e.g. file created & amended dates, document revisions) • Production of exhibits for court use • Opinions expressed as to whether computer media has been wiped or physically damaged to deliberately remove traces of incriminating evidence • Electronic material provenance

Computer forensics • Cryptographic analysis • Software design • Password recovery • Data recovery • Image enhancement • Audio enhancement • Computer architecture • Mobile phone forensics • PDA forensics • Computer espionage • Computer misuse • Data theft • Thumb drive analysis • Metadata analysis • Steganography

30 years' experience of mainframe, server & personal computers • Relevant & easily read reports • CV & sample reports on website • Reports prepared in civil, criminal & employment cases • Has given spoken testimony • Expertise includes: • Forensic examination • Fitness for purpose • Internet use, web browsing & file downloads • Software theft • Data recovery • System & software performance & operation • Staff training & use of computers • Indecent images • False accounting • Drug conspiracy

Secure electronic evidence from computers & related magnetic media on- & off-site • Sophisticated, detailed examination of evidence, recovering deleted files & data hidden to ordinary users • Date & time analysis (e.g. file created & amended dates, etc.) • Production of exhibits for court • Opinion as to whether computer media has been wiped/physically damaged to deliberately remove traces of incriminating evidence • Data recovery • Intellectual property disputes • Computer security • Computer crime • All reports ...

Computer forensics • Mobile phone forensics • Gathering & analysis of computer-related forensic data • Re-analysis of third party & police collected computer forensic data where the existence of rebuttal evidence is suggested • Specialist in 'EnCase' forensic data analysis • Holistic view of computer-related evidence taken where procedural impropriety is suspected • Evaluation of e-mails for veracity • All forms of computer data analysed & prepared for litigation according to current best practice • ...

Computer applications • Information technology • Digital communications • Electrical & electronic engineering (general) • Industrial electronic machine controllers • Industrial electronic process controllers • Doppler radar • Patents & intellectual property rights • Forensic computing • Computer Misuse Act • Computer communication systems • Data security • Computer control systems • Mobile phone forensics • Cell site analysis ...

Secure electronic evidence from computers & related magnetic media on- & off-site • Sophisticated detailed examination of evidence, recovering deleted files & data hidden to ordinary users • Date & time analysis (e.g. file created & amended dates, etc.) • Production of exhibits for court • Data recovery • Intellectual property disputes • Computer security • Computer crime • Instructed in over 250 cases in the last 5 years

Secure forensically sound digital evidence from computers & mobile telephones on & off site • UK-wide expert witness services • Specialising in reconstruction & analysis of digital evidence • Analysis of computer hard drives, backup tapes, floppy disks, CD & DVD, etc. • Full forensic analysis of mobile phones, including the recovery of deleted text messages • Seizure & recovery of computer evidence • Data recovery • Intellectual property disputes • Computer security • Computer crime • Court-ready statements ...

• Certified expert for sophisticated analysis of computers & assistance in matters relating to offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 • Specialist in the evaluation of mobile telephones, SIM cards, GSM/CDMA/UMTS 3G communication systems, Blackberry devices, iPhones & personal digital assistants (PDAs) • Cell Site Analysis (CSA) investigations to reconstruct the physical movements of suspects based upon measurement of the telecommunication infrastructure & ...

Computer forensics • Data recovery • E-mail analysis • Computer crime • Internet abuse • Computer fraud • Mobile forensics • Training

Simon has worked in the forensics industry for many years and has a wealth of experience behind him. His case work has been varied and includes criminal and civil cases for both the prosecution and defence. Throughout his career he has handled computer forensic cases for police forces, government agencies and private sector organisations using a wide range of analysis tools, including EnCase, FTK & Netanalysis.

Adrian manages the southern office for CY4OR and conducts a wide variety of forensic investigations for the company. He spent a large proportion of his career in the Royal Air Force, specialising in the investigation of the misuse of computer systems. He brings this skill set with him to CY4OR and as such is involved in a significant number of commercial IT disputes and employment cases. He is also involved in the analysis of mobile phones, search and seize orders and onsite operations.

Chris has been involved in significant defence and prosecution cases and has provided key evidence on a number of occasions. Instructing bodies have included Customs and Excise, Serious Fraud Panel, Legal 100 companies, banks and accountancy firms. He has also written several technical articles and white papers. He is a highly qualified and experienced expert witness.

He has worked on behalf of solicitors and corporate clients on a variety of UK-based and international cases, ranging from terrorism and fraud, to espionage and theft of intellectual property. He is an honorary visiting lecturer in advanced digital forensics at De Montfort University and is a highly experienced and respected digital forensic expert witness.

I have been involved in computer forensic work since 1997 • Experienced in criminal cases including fraud, possession of indecent images, database theft, harassment, e-mail recovery, drug trafficking, murder & more • Experienced in acquiring electronic evidence from computers & related media both on- & off-site • Detailed examination of evidence undertaken, recovery of deleted files & hidden data • Exhibits produced for court use in simple easy to understand formats • Intellectual property cases • ...

I have been involved in computer forensic work since 2003 • Experienced in criminal cases including fraud, possession of indecent images, database theft, harassment, e-mail recovery, drug trafficking, murder & more • Experienced in acquiring electronic evidence from computers & related media both on- & off-site • Detailed examination of evidence undertaken, recovery of deleted files & hidden data • Exhibits produced for court use in simple easy to understand formats • Intellectual property cases • ...

Expert Services The specialists within Best Practice Group have extensive experience in providing Expert Witness Services as part of litigation or dispute resolution. We work with firms of solicitors and barristers along with their clients and lay-clients to provide wholly objective and independent Expert Witness Services. Our technical people assess technical evidence to determine levels of liability and delineation of roles and responsibilities in major programmes and projects. Our ...

Cardiff University-accredited expert witness in a broad range of information technology matters, including the management of technology & outsourcing projects & programmes • Projects at all stages from concept to deployment • Qualified PRINCE2 practitioner • The definition of roles, responsibilities & the discharge of contractual obligations (both express & implied) • Specialities include business, manufacturing & stock control, accounting & communications, CRM systems • Local & wide area networks • ...

A highly experienced investigator with over 40 years' experience in the computer industry with a background in military intelligence & the military & civilian police. For the last 10 years specialising in forensic computing & e-disclosure. He has long experience of the forensics of IBM Lotus Notes & Domino, together with the forensic recovery of data from computer back up tapes. He has given expert testimony regarding Truvelo digital speed cameras.

Intellectual Property theft • Copyright theft • Source code validation: code comparison expert, functional comparisons, algorithm analysis, methodology & workflow analysis; extremely wide range of languages • PC metadata analysis • Deleted file recovery: PC disk & RAM analysis, boot sector recovery, byte level analysis, document & picture recovery (entire & partials) • Database expert in SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005, Sybase 12 & 14, Sybase ASA, MS Access, Watcom, MySQL • Date-time stamping authentication: ...

Experienced in all aspects of digital investigations including child abuse images, intellectual property, fraud & murder • Expertise includes: • Computer forensics • Data recovery (including RAIDs) • Audio video transcription • Mobile phones, satellite navigation systems & CCTV analysis • Reports provided in a clear, easy to understand format, avoiding technical jargon where possible • Prosecution, Single Joint Expert (SJE) & defence work undertaken ...

Digital Forensics: computers (PCs and Macs), mobile phones, cell site analysis, USB devices, SatNavs • Forensic evidence analysis • Digital document analysis • Password cracking • High quality expert reports in plain English • Steganography a speciality ...

Computer expert instructions specialising in criminal law • Our firm has accepted thousands of instructions in cases involving indecent images of children, fraud, theft & murder where digital expert witness testimony is required

Architecture & construction ...

Mortgages & remortgages • Lending policies, underwriting, loan assessment • Analysis of past mortgage cases comparing the lending against lending policies & general practices at the time, for claimants & defendants • Individual borrower disputes • Professional negligence • Analysis of specialist lending products & individual mortgage applications, including offset, self-certification, sub-prime, buy to let, 100% loan to value, home income plans, equity release loans, shared appreciation mortgages

Safety/liability of consumer products: • DIY tools and equipment • Furniture • Toys • Play and educational equipment • Pushchairs, nursery and childcare products • Choking hazards • Child-resistant features • Labels, warnings and instructions • Packaging • Domestic glazing, doors and other construction products • Ladders and platforms • Gardening tools and machines • Cooking and kitchen equipment • Heating and lighting • Electrical, gas, oil and solid fuel appliances • Barbecues • Cigarette lighters • Cycles • Clothing • ...

Personal injury • Product liability • Professional negligence claims • Environmental health • Consumer protection • Building & construction problems & safety • Playground accidents • Ladder accidents • Structures & structural engineering • Road traffic accident investigation & reconstruction • Agricultural & horticultural • Manufacturing industries • Electrical safety • Chemical safety • Industrial diseases • Musculoskeletal disorders & RSI • Slips, trips & falls • Fork-lift trucks • Guards & guarding systems • Factory accidents ...

Accredited Expert Environmental Witness, Chartered Waste Manager, Chartered Water & Environmental Manager, Chartered Environmentalist • Waste management specialist, advisor & expert witness • Environmental management & audit programmes • Hazardous waste treatment technology & systems • Environmental legislative compliance • Arbitration services for waste & environmental management

Building & architectural acoustics • Noise control • Planning & noise • Licensing & noise • Noise nuisance assessment • Noise impact assessment • Hearing damage causation • Occupational noise • Inaudibility criteria • Audio & public address system engineering & performance audit • 1990 Environmental Protection Act • 1979 Control of Pollution Act • 1993 Noise Act • Common Law tort of nuisance • DETR PPG/24 planning & noise • Building regulations, Approved Document E • BS4142 • Health & Safety at Work Act, 1989 Noise at Work Regulations ...

Over 30 years' professional engineering experience, including 17 years as an expert witness • Extensive range of cases undertaken, including machinery & equipment performance, fault & failure, industrial & consumer personal injury, product liability, design right & patent disputes • Experienced in giving evidence in both the High Court and Crown Court

With over 16 years' professional experience, Robin Carr is able to provide advice, representation & expert reports/expert witness provision on: ...

All matters relating to wild or captive birds (including gamebirds), their parts or derivatives, in the UK & elsewhere • Includes: • Population surveys • Habitat management & destruction issues & population enhancement activities • Bird-human conflict issues • Cruelty to wild or captive birds • Legislative controls & resultant civil or criminal disputes, e.g. possession of birds, eggs, skins, etc. • UK & international trade controls • Former Head of RSPB Investigations • Extensive courtroom experience

Forensic veterinary medicine, especially in respect of cruelty & neglect aspects in relation to domestic pets • Opinion in respect of identification of pit bull terriers in relation to Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 • Veterinary surgeons, professional negligence • Pet owners, negligence, cruelty • Alternative dispute resolution procedures, including arbitration & mediation • Single joint expert instructions taken ...

Forensic veterinary medicine & surgery in cases involving injury, neglect & cruelty particularly in the following species: • Dogs, cats, equines (horses & donkeys), small pets such as rabbits, small rodents, caged birds, pigeons • Forensic matters involving injuries to persons from animals, including confirmation of identity of animals involved & the linking of human injuries to particular animals • Forensic behavioural evidence particularly relating to dogs, cats & horses • Dangerous dogs, including ...

Veterinary medicine & veterinary surgery of: • Cats • Cattle • Dogs • Farm animals • Horses • Sheep • Small animals • Forensic medicine • Veterinary nursing • Veterinary pharmacology • Veterinary pharmacogenetics • Animal by-product regulations • TB testing & movement • Veterinary toxicology • Veterinary practice • Veterinary practice drug testing • Veterinary blood splatter • Veterinary ballistics • Veterinary bioterrorism • Animal hair • Veterinary feather identification • Veterinary document examination • Veterinary crime scene • ...

I am a fully qualified Behaviour Practitioner - a member of the Canine & Feline Behaviour Association & therefore competent to assess temperament & a dog's suitability as a domestic pet • I run my own private practice & specialise in assessing & rehabilitating aggressive dogs • Having working with & owned many Bull breeds & various similar cross breeds for 25 years, I am competent to assess a dog for 'type' as specified in the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 • I am a member of The Guild of Dog Trainers & ...

Employment reports: • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • Stress • Careers advice • Psychometric testing • Disability & employment prospects • Capacity to study or work • Discrimination & disability • Potential earning assessment • General employment matters • Disability discrimination • HR issues • Post-disability employment prospects • Psychometric testing • Self-employment • Careers counselling • Training • Equal opportunities & diversity • Professional earnings • Research • Disabled graduates • Employment advice • Rehabilitation ...

All employment matters, including: • Loss of earnings • Loss of opportunity • Employment prospects & labour market analysis • Employment tribunals • Discrimination in employment & disability • Unfair dismissal • Specialised knowledge of construction industry • Experienced in head injury & spinal injury • Experience in child cases • 12 years' experience as an expert witness • Over 1,000 cases to date • Claimant & defendant work undertaken • Psychometric testing • Vocational rehabilitation & case management

I undertake personal injury, medical negligence & criminal injury care & occupational therapy reports. ...

Care of patients in general practice • Fitness for work • Sickness absence from work • Work-related health problems ...

Psychiatric disorders • Post-traumatic stress & other related disorders • Depressive disorders • Anxiety disorders • Psychotic disorders • Alcohol & drug misuse • Personal injury assessments • Risk assessment • Child care parent assessments • Disability Discrimination Act assessments • Medical negligence • Consultant Psychiatrist & Medical Director at Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust & Senior Lecturer at Southampton University • Visiting Professor, Bournemouth University

Medical conditions caused or possibly caused or exacerbated by work activity or exposure • The effects of chemicals on human health • The health effects of chemical emissions & discharges • The possible exposure level to chemicals in different scenarios & the risk or effects therefrom • Hazard & risk assessment & communication • Management systems for health risk reduction ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder • Dependency & damages due to any psychotropic drugs • Psychiatric medical negligence • Mental Health Act • Stress in place of work • Claims for benefits from insurance companies for mental illness • Disability Discrimination Act • Psychiatric injury due to work, accidents & disasters • Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)

Dyslexia • Dyspraxia • Asperger's syndrome • Attention deficit & hyperactivity disorder • Moderate learning difficulties • Speech & language difficulties • Cerebral palsy • SENDIST cases • Disability discrimination cases • Experience: children & adults ...

Psychopathology & psychiatric disorders • Trauma sequelae (psychiatry, including personal injury) • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Personality disorder • Criminal responsibility (psychiatric assessment) • Fitness to plead (psychiatric assessment) • Dangerous & risk assessment (psychiatric) • Crime victims (psychiatry) • Offender assessment (psychiatric) • Witness assessment & testamentary capacity • Criminal behaviour • Child & family cases (custody cases) • Psychiatric care & rehabilitating • Disability ...

My waiting list is normally 3-4 weeks, but I can see clients urgently if required. I have long held major regional and national roles in the BMA and Royal College of Psychiatrists. I have provided thousands of reports to very many solicitors. I am experienced in personal injury, employment issues and clinical negligence. I am scrupulously independent.

Consultant & Senior Lecturer in liaison & general psychiatry at South London & Maudsley NHS Trust, London • Trained in neuropathology in Glasgow • Psychiatric training (Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospitals, London) in forensic psychiatry, drug abuse & psychotherapy • Specialist training in neuropsychiatry (National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London), especially of epilepsy, head injury & conversion disorders • PTSD, personal injury, occupational psychiatry, stress, workplace bullying, racial ...

General occupational medicine • Disability discrimination law

Specialist areas include: • Adult mental health • Full range of psychological disorders • Learning disability • Vulnerable adults • Intellectual & cognitive functioning assessment • IQ • Mental capacity • Capacity to consent • Global parenting & family assessment • Risk assessment • Child care proceedings • Sexual abuse • Sexual offences • Trauma • PTSD • Specialist training & expertise in the assessment of autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), especially Asperger's Syndrome

Children & families (local authority child protection & private law) • Mental capacity & competence • Personal injury victims • Criminal justice (including fitness to plead, interview & appear) • Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority • Mental Health Act (including guardianship) • Employment & occupational health (incapacity, Disability Discrimination Act, stress) • Immigration & asylum • Housing (vulnerability) ...

General rheumatology • Psoriatic arthritis • Spondylitis • Neck & back • Impact of injury on inflammatory arthritis • Pain syndromes: CRPS/reflex dystrophy - diagnostic methods • RSI & upper limb work-related pain • Adverse drug reactions in rheumatic disease treatment • Disability Discrimination Act tribunal cases • Employment tribunal with disability aspects

We have considerable practical expertise in all aspects of drug trafficking and production matters. Our areas of expertise include: • Cannabis cultivation - estimation of yields, levels of sophistication & valuation • Levels of drug use - quantities recovered consistent with personal use • Drug valuations (particularly in relation to POCA proceedings) • Interpretation of 'dealing lists', including text messages & drug slang • Amphetamines • Interpretation of forensic evidence. This list is not definitive and, as each ...

DETRU has provided expert evidence in criminal cases concerning street drugs for over 20 years • Behaviour associated with street drugs • Purity • Levels of use • Paraphernalia • Prices • Patterns of consumption • Effects of drugs • POCA • Dealer lists • Assessment of whether quantities of drugs seized are consistent with personal use • Cannabis supply & use • Cultivation cases • Potential yields & values from cannabis systems • Assessment of sophistication • Medical & therapeutic uses of cannabis

Assessment of child development • Assessment of learning profiles, educational attainments & levels of intellectual functioning in children & adults • Dyslexia, ADHD & autism • Assessing the effects of learning difficulties, disabilities, emotional & behavioural factors on development, educational performance & social functioning • Formal assessments & presentation of reports for educational, immigration & employment tribunals & for the courts

Local education authorities' responsibilities & negligence • Educational issues relating to school admissions & attendance • Parental rights & responsibilities regarding attendance, pupil behaviour, exclusion from school & related disciplinary matters • Employment issues concerning teachers' conditions of service & professional competence, disciplinary matters • The rights & responsibilities of governing bodies • All matters relating to pupils' welfare & behaviour, & all issues concerning their special ...

Assessment of children & young people (3-18 years) with learning, emotional & behavioural difficulties • Trained in dynamic assessment (Feuerstein), which explores the learning potential of every child (helpful in cases where standardised testing is unsuccessful) • Preparation of detailed reports for family courts & appeals against Local Education Authority Education Act decisions • Submission of oral evidence • High court & tribunal experience • Instructed by Cafcass ( & previously by the official ...

Consultant in Clinical Neuropsychology • Effects of traumatic head injury & road traffic accidents • Medical negligence • Criminal proceedings • Educational negligence • Specific learning difficulties (dyslexia, etc.) • Educational provision & placement issues • 1996 Education Act appeals & tribunal work ...

Education issues, advice & consultation from infant to higher education • Child development from birth • Special needs & additional support needs (SEN & ASN) in education & care • Family mediation, custody, suitability of existing & proposed care & education arrangements • Claims alleging faulty education, negligence in education & /or care • Social work issues • Staff training, development & supervision • Injuries (e.g. RTA) affecting infants', children's & adult's care & /or education • Assessing the ...

My expertise is all aspects of secondary/primary education - accidents, injuries, leadership, management, policy implementation, staffing. This stems from 20 years of secondary headship and extensive work as an accredited consultant/facilitator for the National College of School Leadership, as well as substantial consultancy work both in the UK and abroad.

All forms of environmental health work undertaken, including: • Environmental protection, including air pollution control • Environmental, community & occupational noise assessment & control • Investigation & resolution of statutory nuisances • Environmental assessments of new development proposals under Town & Country Planning Acts • Food poisoning investigations • Food safety audits • Food hygiene training • Housing disrepair & fitness assessments • Health & safety risk assessment & accident investigations ...

Health risk assessment & control of chemical hazards in the workplace & environment • Occupational hygiene • Noise • Hand-arm vibration • COSHH • Industrial ventilation • Personal protective equipment • Building-related illness (BRI) • Legionella risk assessment & control • Safety, health & environmental reviews • Training • Environmental management • Contaminated land ...

Town & country planning: • Environmental impact • Environmental protection: • Environmental management • Environmental monitoring • Water: • Water resources • Water quality • River pollution • Effluent pollution, analysis & treatment • Air: • Odour pollution & nuisance • Agriculture: • Agricultural engineering • Agricultural construction & use regulations • Health & safety accidents • Irrigation systems

Botanical & plant topics • Plant diseases • Horticulture • Stress biology • Biotechnology & molecular biology • Bioterrorism • Biodiversity • Conservation • Leading world authority concerning root invading pathogens, especially clubroot (Plasmodiophora brassicae) • Climate change & the resultant damage • Biotic & abiotic stress, & especially low temperature injury • Estimation of financial loss, assessment of liability & quantum • Educational consultant

Environmental noise: • Community noise problems • Sports noise • Music noise, including public entertainment licence & Environmental Protection Act hearings • Planning inquiries • Pop festivals • Transportation noise: • Prediction & expert evidence on aircraft noise • Railway noise & vibration • Road traffic noise • Architectural & building acoustics: • Building acoustics from studios to synagogues • Building services noise • Workplace & industrial noise: • Occupational hearing damage assessments & ...

Air pollution, including odour nuisance & food tainting • Accident investigation • Major hazards • Fire • Explosion • Toxic gas • Chemical spills • HSWA • COMAH • COSHH • DSEAR • Industrial injuries from chemical & process hazards • Risk from transport, storage, handling & treatment of chemicals, including hazardous waste • Environmental impact assessment • Accidents to the environment • Planning inquiries (risk & air pollution issues) • Cargo quality disputes • Cargo contamination incidents ...

Environmental noise: • Community noise problems • Sports noise • Music noise, including public entertainment licence & Environmental Protection Act hearings • Planning inquiries • Pop festivals • Transportation noise: • Prediction & expert evidence on aircraft noise • Railway noise & vibration • Road traffic noise • Architectural & building acoustics: • Building acoustics from studios to synagogues • Building services noise • Workplace & industrial noise: • Occupational hearing damage assessments & ...

Martin Barnard leads a team of health and safety experts who provide expert legal advice, in construction and occupational health, for both criminal and civil cases. Our experts have vast experience in every health and safety discipline, and have the technical skills to quickly get to the heart of even the most complex issue. ...

Insurance • Insurance regulation (broking) • Insurance principles • Insurance market practice • Financial services market practice • Insurance Brokers Registration Act • Insurance broker negligence • Disciplinary matters & procedures • Insurance policy wordings • Life assurance • Personal accident • Negligent references • FSA compliance • GISC compliance ...

Fee parameters can operate within Legal Aid levels • First gave expert evidence with Ernst & Young • In excess of 500 cases with expert involvement • Mid-career spent in industry & commerce with a wide variety of director & company secretary positions in public & private companies, including experience in recruitment industry & career counselling • Traditional forensic accounting skills (loss, valuation, etc.) enhanced by direct experience in industry & commerce ...

Corporate & individual pensions & general benefits for employees • Pensions on divorce • Trust splitting • Claims against life offices for maladministration • Personal pension mis-selling reviews • Associated investment issues

Advice in relation to liability in respect of the actions of accountants • Quantification of damages in relation to commercial claims in areas such as: • Loss of profits claims • Breach of warranty claims • Loss of earnings & personal injury claims • Clinical negligence claims • Shareholder disputes • Section 994 claims • Valuations of businesses & shares • Professional negligence claims • Matrimonial claims • Financial services claims • Financial investigation services such as: • Security for costs ...

Matrimonial litigation: • Financial advice & support (including matters concerning taxation & splitting & earmarking of pensions) both before & during each stage of divorce proceedings • Personal injury & medical negligence claims: • Loss of earnings projections • Loss of pension benefits • Cost of care & housing, etc. • Wills & probate: • Share & asset valuation • Taxation advice • Industrial & commercial claims: • Calculations & assessments concerning loss of profits, interruption of ...

Retired bank executive with 37 years' banking experience • Managed both the security taking & recovery functions in a joint stock bank • For 7 years was involved in a general management role in the specialised lending department • Has been Chief Examiner in Business Law for the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland for over 10 years

Training & competence rules & schemes under FSA • Compliance rules & schemes under FSA • Disputes involving dismissal or supervision • Matters relating to appropriate advice • Fitness & properness • Fraud/theft of client funds • Senior management accountability under FSA • Negligent references • Specific knowledge of training & competence rules & schemes & compliance rules & schemes relating to ex PIA-regulated companies, individuals & IFAs • Reports & court appearances undertaken (plaintiff & defendant), including ...

Compliance with UK financial services rules & regulations • Financial planning matters, including pensions, investments, savings, life assurance & the advisory process & standards

Unique Consultants, whose principals are Dr M Desmond Fitzgerald & Professor Janette Rutterford, Abbey National Professor of Financial Management at The Open University, specialises in expert witness work on cases involving financial markets • The Company's expertise covers: • Capital markets, including fixed income, equities, commodities • All derivatives, including futures & options, structured products, credit derivatives, risk management • Asset management & performance measurement • Corporate finance

Independent financial adviser, directly authorised & regulated by the Financial Services Authority • Advanced Financial Planning Certificate since 1995 • Cemap since 2003 • Certificate in Long Term Care Insurance (CF8) 2006 • Certificate of Expert Witness Accreditation 2006 • Past external moderator for Financial & Business Skills • Financial adviser since 1990 • Previously 22 years' senior international investment banking experience in the City of London ...

Any matters relating to the trading or management of derivatives (options & futures) • As a director & senior consultant of K2 London Ltd, I provide educational & consultancy services to a wide range of companies, financial institutions, government agencies & exchanges

Disputes involving an insurance broker or other professional intermediary agent's negligence or arising out of the principles & practice of insurance in the UK • My expertise is across all classes of personal & commercial insurance, but not reinsurance, marine aviation or credit insurance classes • My expertise covers policy wordings & interpretation • Disputes involving business interruption losses are a particular area of interest to me • Compliance with FSA regulation, codes of conduct & practice, ...

Forensic accountant specialising in expert witness & expert advisory services in commercial disputes • Areas of expertise include the quantification of loss & damages arising from tortious, contractual & criminal matters • Dispute types include shareholder & partnership issues; post-merger & acquisitions issues including warranty & contract consideration issues; supply chain; professional negligence; loss of profits & business interruption; CPO & employment • Also expertise in managing & undertaking ...

Compliance & regulatory issues covering persons or firms regulated by the Financial Services Authority or one of its predecessors • Such issues may include allegations of wrongful advice (e.g. mis-selling), standards of conduct expected of competent advisers or firms, employment issues (e.g. negligent referencing leading to inability to obtain employment), corroboration of individuals' or firms' business expectations, appointed representative disputes, etc. ...

Graham is an experienced forensic accountant who has prepared hundreds of expert reports and has given oral evidence in the High Court, County Court and Crown Court. ...

Financial risk analysis (volatility, VaR, portfolio risk, risk/return issues) • Credit risk analysis • Market risk analysis • Asset management (fiduciary duties, negligence, mis-selling, risk management) • Valuations (company, portfolio, etc.)

Roger Score is the 'entry point' contact for OAC & can call on additional staff with experience of acting as experts • Life assurance companies, their finance & their operations • Pension schemes, covering investment, administration & actuarial advice, e.g. the treatment of surplus assets, directors' & executives' pensions, funding calculations & scheme wind-ups • Suitability of investment advice - pensions, life assurance & mortgages • Compensation for unsuitable investment advice • Financial ...

Fire precautions in buildings • Fire safety legislation & regulations • Design of fire protection installations • Fire detection & alarm installations • Means of escape from fire • Management of fire safety • Fire risk assessment • Domestic fire safety • Building Regulations, Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order, Fire (Scotland) Act

Experience in managing all aspects of corporate security & loss prevention • Formerly Director of the Fire Protection Association & Director General, Arson Prevention Bureau • Produced insurers' guidance on fires on construction sites • Particular interest in heritage buildings • Has written 9 books on loss prevention topics • Recent experience of cases involving employer's liability for injury occasioned during robbery, failure of fire protection systems • Hot work fires

Fire investigation involving: • Arson, fire raising • Homicidal & suicidal applications of fire • Use of fire as a weapon or cover of crime • Destruction & /or damage of human bodies by fire • Fatal fires • Causes of fires • Fire engineering • Fire law • Fire safety • Hazards • Fire & Rescue Service-related accident litigation & claims

Determination of origin & cause of fire & explosion • Fire investigation, including arson, fatal fires & cold case review • Examination of fire development & spread, including firefighting tactics & procedures • Fire risk assessment, including product safety evaluation • 30+ years London Fire Service experience ...

Expert witness in fire safety • Fire investigation • Fire risk investigation • Fellow of Institution of Fire Engineers • Fellow of Institution of Fire Safety Managers • Member of International Institute of Risk & Safety Managers • Member of the Institution of Fire Prevention Officers • Member of the Fire Protection Association • Member of the Association of Fire Consultants • Member of Society of Expert Witnesses • Member of Guild of Master Craftsmen • Current Vice-President of the Institute of Fire Safety Managers (IFSM) ...

40 years' experience in firearms matters • Investigation & testing of small arms of all types • Reports prepared on subject matters that include: ...

Forensic firearms, weapons & ammunitions classification, examination, testing, research & analysis • Ballistics • Trajectories • Wound ballistics • Wounds • Munitions • Explosions & explosives, military & civil • Pyrotechnics • Fireworks • Improvised explosive devices (IED) (bombs) • Terrorist devices • Disguised firearms • Stun guns • Tasers • Electronic weapons • Threat assessment, advice, demonstration & identification • Accident investigation • Armour • Body armour • Perforation • Penetration • Indentation • ...

Firearms & ballistics, including pistols, rifles, shotguns, air weapons, bullets, cartridges, pellets, etc. • Antique & modern • Chronographic testing of air rifle/pistol muzzle velocities for accurate legal classification • Reconstruction of gun-related scenes of crime, appraisal & opinion on forensic reports, test firing, & examination of arms & armour of all types & age • Interpretation of firearms discharge residues ...

Firearms identification & examination • Interior, exterior & terminal ballistics • Gunshot residues • Examination & comparison of toolmarks & firing marks on bullets & cartridge cases • 39 years' experience with firearms, 22 years as expert witness

Expertise in firearms & video material • 17 years as full-time forensic scientist • 30+ years' experience of firearms, 17 years' experience of imagery material ...

Ammunition • Ballistics • Explosions • Explosives • Firearms • Firearms residues • Arson • Fire investigations • Paints • Paint failures • Drugs & toxicology • Blood • Breath alcohol calculations • All aspects of drink-related offences, e.g. failure to provide, operation of instruments, etc. • Footwear marks • Glass fragments • Tool marks • Physical fit evidence • Transfer of building materials • Direction of breakage of reconstructed glass panes & bottles ...

Classification of firearms, ammunition & related items under UK law • Mechanical condition of firearms & crossbows • Methods used to produce home-made, converted & re-activated firearms & home-made or improvised ammunition • Interpretation of evidence from shooting scenes, including: assessing strength of any association between recovered missiles, cartridge cases & suspect firearms (comparison microscopy); assessing number, range(s) & directions of shots fired • Firearms evidence review

Fireworks, pyrotechnics & explosives - accidents involving use, misuse, transport, storage or illegal manufacture • Improvised explosive devices (criminal use) • Safety & legal procedures for the use of fireworks, pyrotechnics, special effects & root cause analysis of accidents • Scientific recreation of explosive incidents • Firearms legislation & interpretation of law • Explosives legislation, interpretation & implementation • Associated health & safety & accident investigation • Fire investigation - cause ...

Food technology • Food plant & machinery • Food analysis • Food labelling • Packaging & packaging materials • Taint & flavour • Food poisoning • Food storage • Food additives • Food hygiene • Forensic science • Food contamination ...

Food law (EC & national) • Civil & criminal cases • Insurance claims & investigations • Food safety & quality • Due diligence • HACCP • Hygiene • Allergens • Contamination • Consumer complaints • Food labelling ...

Consultant & Expert Witness (criminal & civil) since 1978 • Investigation of accidental food contamination claims (UK & abroad), & allegations of food safety offences (UK & Ireland) ...

Food law • Food safety • TV & radio food safety expert • Public relations spokesperson • Prosecution & defence • Due diligence defence • HACCP • Investigation of food poisoning • Travel-associated illness • Liaison with enforcement officers • Food allergy • Training • Development of training materials • E-learning • Web audits • Food supply chain management • Food safety management systems • Dr Ackerley is Visiting Professor of Environmental Health at Salford University • SOFHT Award Winner Most Significant Contribution to Food ...

Food safety • Food law (EC & national) • Civil & criminal cases • Prosecution & defence • Liaison with local authority enforcement officers • Hygiene improvement notices • Hygiene emergency prohibition notices • Assistance with improvement & design of premises • Due diligence defence • Investigation of food poisoning incidents • Food hygiene training (all levels) • Development of food safety systems • HACCP • Hygiene • Development of training systems • Food supply chain data management • Food allergy training ...

Very experienced practitioner specialising in health & safety/food safety matters since 1988, including 9 years as an enforcement officer • Particular areas of expertise include investigation of workplace injuries & fatalities, risk assessment, risk management & insurance-related matters • Further expertise as a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner with respect to food contamination, HACCP, food processing, alleged food poisoning & food-borne injury ...

Analysis & bacteriology of foods • Analysis of drugs • Pharmaceutical & medicine analysis • Vitamins • Analysis of fertilisers & feedstuffs • Fuel technology • Analysis of water • Effluent • Pollution, general • Forensic science • Blood alcohol authorised analysts • Blood alcohol backtrack calculation • Accelerants & fire duration • Intoxylizers, failure to provide breath • Drink & drugs & driving • Food identification • Stomach contents identification

Andrew has over 10 years' experience as a forensic practitioner. He is a member of the Forensic Department of Baker Tilly, having previously worked and trained at a 'Big 4' accounting firm. He routinely prepares reports for courts and tribunals in connection with claims for breach of contract, loss of profits, professional negligence, as well as financial valuations and transaction disputes. ...

Norman Cowan is a Chartered Accountant and Licensed Insolvency Practitioner and a partner in Wilder Coe LLP Chartered Accountants, and now heads up its Business Recovery and Forensic Accounting Departments. He is a member of the Expert Witness Institute; the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Professional Negligence Lawyers Association; Network of Independent Forensic Accountants (NIFA) and obtained the Cardiff University Expert Witness Accreditation. ...

Mechanical engineering design • Fuel energy & combustion • Product liability • Product & production machinery design & manufacture • Intellectual property rights in product design • Domestic & industrial accidents • Design, operation & manufacture of combustion systems & fuel economy devices • Foreseeability & machinery aspects of upper limb disorders, manual handling injuries & vibration white finger • School & educational laboratory equipment • Product performance failure • ...

Accidents at work, forklift truck, ladder, machinery, lifting, falling, health & safety at work • Pedestrian accidents, slipping, tripping • Accidents on construction sites, scaffolding, cranes • Building defects, windows • Concrete, mix design, cracking • Flooring construction, wear, joints, screeds, slip resistance, surfaces, toppings • Road traffic accidents, reconstruction, skidding

Mechanical engineering • Process engineering • Machine design • Hazard analysis • Litigation work • Health & safety at work • Safety in work practices • Guarding & control of machinery • Lifting equipment & lifting hazards • Analysis of equipment failures • Handling of hazardous materials • Road traffic accidents, personal injury

Formerly employed by the Health & Safety Executive as one of HM Inspectors of Health & Safety, my expertise lies in the investigation of industrial accidents & the interpretation of health & safety legislation • Particular fields of expertise are: • Forestry • Sawmilling • Agriculture • Construction • General manufacturing • Oil & gas industry • The company I run employs specialists in noise & vibration, lifting machinery & appliances, asbestos & fire

General ergonomics • Workplace design • Repetitive strain injury • Work-related upper limb disorders • Manual handling • Back injuries • Health & safety • Slipping & tripping • Office ergonomics • Neck & shoulder injuries ...

Forensic investigations & reports relating to road traffic accident investigations, pavement trips & personal injury accident investigations, insurance investigations • Health & safety risk assessments & related accident investigations • Expert witness reports & evidence at public & planning inquiries, with particular reference to interpretation of highway design standards, road safety & road safety audits, traffic & transportation matters ...

My past career has included 8 years in industry & 7 years as a Specialist Inspector of the HSE where my specialism was process safety & flammable materials. I can therefore accept instruction in most cases where health & safety legislation is concerned, i.e. storage, use & processing of flammable materials, & the combustion aspects of carbon monoxide poisoning, etc.

Assisting with claims for damages following accidents or ill-health at work • Site inspections & witness statements, assessment of negligence & whether breaches of legislation have occurred • Advice on whether all reasonably practicable steps have been taken by a defendant employer • Interpretation of all occupational health & safety legislation & how this applies in any particular case

Manual handling in the movement of people • Competent in health & safety issues with regard to Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 & Management of Health & Safety at Work 1999 • Consultant to nursing home inspection units & social services contracts departments with regard to requirement of training, safe environments, risk assessments & resultant injuries to either client or carer • Advice in requirements of core packages in community & equipment needs to reduce risk of injury & comply with directives

Technical aspects for safe working at height when working from scaffolding, suspended cradles, rope access (abseiling), ladders, safety nets, containment nets & sheets, stagings, using safety lines & harnesses, roof work, including work on/by fragile surfaces • Giving opinion on effective design, management & supervision for safe work at height • Also on risk assessment, method statements & safety policies • Advice on regulations dealing with work at height ...

A Chartered Safety & Health Practitioner & Mechanical Engineer (IEng) widely experienced from a career spanning over 30 years • Now a practising consultant in a wide range of industries • Incident investigation • Engineering, manufacturing & mechanical equipment • Industrial safety & practices • Equipment maintenance & management • Workshop layout • Contractor competence & vetting procedures • Health & safety in education, leisure, community centre, surgeries, catering equipment, offices & retail environments • Policy ...

General health & safety issues • Mechanical engineering • VWF claims • Haulage & transport • Fairground & leisure parks • Oil & gas • Asbestos • Asbestosis • Mesothelioma

Health & safety • Mechanical engineering

Assist with claims for damages following accidents or ill health at work • Site inspections & accident investigations • Assessment of compliance with health & safety regulations • Specialising in construction industry • Advice on steps to be taken by employer, client or responsible person to comply with legislation • Policy documentation & procedures • Competence of contractors, designers • Safe systems of work • Registered CDM coordinator • Member of the British Safety Council

Health & Safety Consultant with over 30 years' experience, 12 of which were as an HM Inspector of Factories with the Health & Safety Executive. Experience covers a wide range of industry sectors, including: • Chemical • Foundries • General engineering & manufacturing • Timber & woodworking • Plastics • Bricks • Quarries • Printing • Retail • Food manufacturing Experience also includes aspects of surface & underground railways & electrical engineering. Accident & incident investigation for both plaintiff & ...

Health & safety risk management • Management responsibilities • Safety management systems • Risk management • Health & safety regulations • Health & Safety Approved Codes of Practice • Corporate manslaughter • Personal injury cases • Accident investigation • Commercial diving management • Recreational diving management • Diving accidents & injuries ...

Expertise: • Safety • Accident investigation • Health & Safety at Work Act & Regulations • Personal injury • Fires • Explosions • Risk assessment • Safety management • Occupational accidents • Product safety • Dangerous goods • Falls • Mechanical or structural failure • Machinery Sectors: • Industrial • Construction • Mechanical • Electrical • Manufacturing • Factories • Oil • Gas • Offshore • Chemicals • Pipelines • Railways • Public transport • Ports & docks • Food • Retail • Leisure

Structural engineering • Foundation works • Steel & concrete construction • Concrete deterioration • Works progress • Construction contract disputes • Heavy civil engineering • Plant foundations • Power station construction • Building defects • Multi-disciplinary projects • Slip resistance of floors, pavements & other surfaces ...

Forensic engineering associated with: • Incident investigation & reconstruction, including those associated with construction sites, infrastructure, buildings, factories or other places of work • JCT contracts • Incident or equipment failure causality analysis leading to personal injury or property damage • Investigations that require the support of hazardous operations analysis & failure mode evaluation • Incidents involving human & machine interface, including use of displays, machines & manual ...

Health & safety • Investigation of industrial accidents, personal injuries & fatalities • Mechanical engineering design • Energy & process engineering • Investigations of fire & explosions • Investigation of defective engineering design & plant mal-performance • Cranes • Lifting equipment • Air conditioning systems • Legionnaires disease

Detailed forensic investigation of accidents & incidents • General health, safety & mechanical engineering issues • Materials handling • Application of health & safety legislation & assessment of risk • Suitability of equipment & design specification • Whole body & hand-arm vibration

Forensic, highways & construction meteorology • Routine & winter highway maintenance • Road traffic accident investigation & reconstruction • Slips, trips & falls • Ice & frost prediction & detection • Thermal mapping • Snow clearance • Adverse road conditions due to weather • Fog, wind, storm & rainfall analysis • Micro-climatology • Estimation of flooding • Road surveying • Surface water drainage • Weather forecasting

Investigation of evidence as to status of a highway • Evaluation of Public Path Order Proposals • Assessment of definitive map modification orders & applications

The investigation of, & reporting into, the validity & lawful status of: • Speed limits • Parking (signing & lining systems) • Traffic order • Byelaw regimes • Road defects • Geometry • Signing anomalies as causation factors of driver behaviour pre-incident • Traffic calming • Enforcement, i.e. Cleveland speed issues A171 Charltons 2003 • 30 years' experience in investigation, interview, analysis, report preparation, mediation, arbitration & expert witness at Crown & Magistrates courts • Problem-solving workshops ...

Land development • Development control • Highway engineering & design • Traffic impact assessment studies • Traffic engineering • Engineering aspects of development agreements • Engineering investigations of road & footway accidents • Civil engineering works planning, design & management

Highway management • Highway asset management • Highway risk management • Road traffic accident investigation • Road safety • Traffic management & safety • Safety audit • Highway inspections & surveys • Falling, slipping & tripping accidents • Highway hazards (including non-highway public areas) • Visibility hazards • Footpath, footway & pavement accidents • Highway law • Rights & duties of road users • Rights & duties of landowners in relation to the highway • Duties & powers of highway authorities

Highway maintenance • Highway engineering • Highway management • Materials used in highway construction & maintenance • Traffic engineering • Personal injury from road traffic accidents • Falling, slipping & tripping accidents • Highway hazards (including non-highway public areas) • Visibility hazards • Highway weather hazards • Ice & snow-related accidents • Footpath, footway & pavement accidents • Road signs • Highway law • Rights & duties of landowners in relation to the highway • Rights & duties of road users • Duties & powers ...

Highway & public rights of way law & practice • All legal aspects relating to the maintenance & management of the highway network, including motorways, roads, byways, bridleways, footpaths & cycle tracks, lanes & ways • The processing & publication of statutory orders, including TROs, TMOs, SROs, CPOs, development orders, pedestrian orders, cycle track conversion orders, diversion, extinguishment & creation orders, modification orders & orders relating to the removal of obstructions to the highway

Energy consultant • Environmental health consultant • Building surveying consultant • Housing • Landlord & tenant advice & assistance • Public health consultant • Environmental protection consultant • Pest control consultant • Personal injury matters

Negligence claims in respect of mortgage valuations, house buyers reports & building surveys • Solicitor negligence claims requiring valuation evidence • Valuation evidence generally on residential property • Boundary disputes • Building disputes relating to residential property • Schedules of condition & dilapidations claims • Personal injury claims involving defective premises • Residential tenancies

Expertise in assessment, consultancy, training and chairs, speaks and organises local, national and international conferences and seminars on issues pertaining to black African children & families • She is often called upon to contribute to government reports and research and offers opinion to national television, newspaper and radio broadcasters • She is co-author and author of four publications

Dispute resolution • Dilapidations • Listed buildings • Lease disputes • Boundary disputes • Single Joint Expert • Residential property • Residential valuation • Commercial property • Schedule of condition • Lease renewal

Insurance brokers' errors & omissions • Credit & political risks claims & recoveries • Art & antiques insurance, theft & recovery • Fraud against insurance companies

Insurance Broker Codes of Conduct & Professional Standards, particularly with reference to the GISC & Financial Services Authority Regulation of insurance brokers & the practices brokers should apply in order to comply. ...

Insurance broking & insurance intermediary negligence • Business insurance • Personal insurance • Insurance claims • Problem insurance • Insurance disputes

Insurance disputes • Broker negligence & underwriting disputes in non-marine insurance • Life, critical illness & permanent health insurance • Insurance disputes of a contractual nature

Intermediary negligence, recklessness & fraud • Insurance practice & regulation • Insurance policy interpretation • Property insurance & business interruption • Employers' public & products liability • Marine insurance & reinsurance • Reinsurance claims & disputes • Life assurance • I am happy to consider last minute enquiries

10+ years' experience in 'expert' work, including appearances in court & in mediation & dispute resolution proceedings • Specialist in insurance broker's professional duty of care & London insurance market practice • PI insurance advisor to the British Insurance Brokers Association (BIBA) • Properly trained in expert evidence skills & responsibility to the court • Experienced in supporting lawyers in drafting pleadings & finding comparables & evidence • Well known & respected in the industry ...

A long career has included commercial insurance broking in the Midlands, directorships of two Lloyd's brokers and senior underwriting positions on Lloyd's syndicates. The principal specialisation is the broking and underwriting of professional indemnity and liability insurance, and the majority of expert witness engagements has been in relation to these classes, including issues of non-disclosure, late notification, policy coverage and interpretation. However, instructions are accepted for issues ...

Property reinsurance • Coverage disputes • Broker negligence • Catastrophe bond/insurance-linked securities • Proof of loss • Loss payment disputes & design faults • Risk modelling • Risk consulting negligence

Landlord & tenant • Compulsory purchase & compensation • Property valuation • Rating • Sales & lettings of commercial property • Estate management • Rent review & lease renewal

Investigation into building defects, diagnosis of remedial work required & the costs • Building contract disputes • Boundary disputes, party wall matters • Landlord & tenant disputes, lease renewals • Valuations under Leasehold Reform legislation

Building construction in all aspects • Building material failures • Structural defects & foundation failures • Boundary disputes • Landlord & tenant • Negligence claims

Professional negligence of valuers & surveyors • Valuation disputes: residential & commercial • Landlord & tenant disputes: lease terms, rent, dilapidations • Building contract disputes • Boundary disputes

Valuation of all types of residential property: mortgage valuations, matrimonial valuations • Valuations of licensed property: mortgage valuations, landlord & tenant disputes • Valuations of hotels, guest houses, holiday flats, restaurants, care homes: mortgage valuations, matrimonial valuations

I have over 25 years' experience of dealing with all aspects of commercial, industrial & residential property in London & the Home Counties • I am competent to accept instructions in the following areas: • Valuation • Landlord & Tenant Act • Rent reviews • Commercial rating • Compulsory purchase & compensation

All property matters relating to valuation issues of motor trade & leisure industry, including in particular: • Landlord & tenant • Rental values • Petrol filling stations • Business losses • Professional negligence • Compulsory purchase • Rating assessments • Arbitrations • Caravan sites • Shooting or sporting rights • Trained & practising arbitrator • Town & country planning specialism

Appraisal of the fabric & construction of buildings • Design, specification & management of building projects • Interpretation of building contracts • Disputes relating to the quality of work, materials & methods • The application of building regulations & legislation to the building process • Condensation & dampness • Damage caused by tree roots • Boundary disputes • Landlord & tenant issues, service charge matters & dilapidations claims • Repair & maintenance of buildings • Party wall & related neighbourly issues

Building disputes: quality of workmanship, quantum & contract • Boundary disputes • Schedules of condition & dilapidations • Landlord & Tenant Act • Abatement notices • Party Wall Act

Expertise in the valuation of petrol filling stations, motor trade & roadside properties throughout the UK ...

Building disputes & disrepair claims • Residential & commercial valuations • Landlord & tenant disputes • Town planning appeals • Surveyor & solicitor negligence claims • Building disrepair notices • Boundary disputes • Listed building cases • Compensation claims

Building disputes: • Quality • Contract disputes • Construction adjudication • Maintenance & major repairs • Professional negligence: • Building surveys • Contract administration • Personal injury: • Occupiers' & employers' liability • Building site accidents • Disabled adaptations • Landlord & tenant: • Statutory nuisance • Dilapidations • Service charge disputes • Neighbour disputes: • Boundaries • Trespass • Party wall awards • Condition surveys • Adjudicator & arbitrator in construction disputes

Landlord & tenant • Housing disrepair • Building contracts disputes • Personal injury • Defective building works • Service charges • Negligence of professional advisers • Defective & /or inadequate design • Needs of disabled users • Environmental health issues in housing • Mr Reddin is also a CEDR-accredited mediator

Building surveying • Construction & structural defects • Subsidence damage • Heave, foundation defects • Design & detailing • Building & contract administration • Boundary disputes • Party wall administration • Structural surveys & valuations • Structural engineering design • Planning & building control applications • Refurbishment, restoration & conservation • Fire damage • Flood damage

Foundation failures, including heave & subsidence-related problems • Building defects of structure & fabric, including concrete, steel, timber & masonry buildings, whether prefabricated or in situ • Footbridge & cycle bridge-related problems of deck & structure • Concrete failures due to contamination, chloride attack, carbonation, sulphate attack, alkali-silica reaction, together with pollution-related problems & their effect • Prestressing & related problems, including prestressed & post-tensioned in situ ...

A Chartered Valuation Surveyor competent & experienced in compulsory purchase & compensation issues in relation to land & property interests • Has appeared before CPO inquiries & The Lands Tribunal, & provided expert reports for those • Also specialised in leasehold enfranchisement matters & joint author of a number of published works on the subject • Experience in preparing expert reports for tribunals & the courts, as a witness on valuation disputes, town planning matters & in claims generally

Building surveying • Contract disputes & boundary & party wall matters • Negligent surveys • Accommodation needs

Surveys • Valuations • Landlord & tenant renewals, rent reviews & dilapidations disputes • Building contracts disputes • Party wall disputes

Construction defects: advice & reports on building defects & constructional elements • Building contract matters: advice & reports on building contract issues & disputes • Professional negligence: expert reports on site management & third party negligence • Property matters: advice & reports in respect of party wall matters, boundary disputes and landlord-tenant dilapidation matters • Building surveys • Personal injury: access auditing & reports on disability adaptations in buildings • Conservation: advice ...

20 years' experience of surveying & valuing both residential & commercial property in Sussex • Experience includes valuations for loan security purposes, advising on conversions & refurbishment projects, & development land, rent reviews, lease renewals & other Landlord & Tenant work

I have been a Chartered Surveyor since 1984 and have worked in the commercial and residential sector primarily within the Shropshire and Staffordshire areas as a general practitioner. I specialise in providing Red Book commercial valuations for the majority of the banks and undertake estate management work to include rent reviews, lease renewals and schedules of dilapidations and condition. I also have a wide expertise in residential survey and valuation work. I have acted in connection with ...

Valuations of commercial properties • Rental valuations • Arbitration • Independent Expert • Lease renewals • Compulsory purchase • Boundary disputes • Valuations of residential properties • Leasehold enfranchisement

Consultant Surveyor used to acting as an expert witness in property valuation disputes in the area of civil litigation • I have acted as an expert in cases concerning the High Court, County Court, at government public inquiries & at Valuation Tribunals • I have professionally advised both public & private companies & individuals • I regularly advise in disputes involving both commercial & residential properties, including those affecting disputes over asset, values, landlord & tenant matters & matrimonial ...

Housing disrepair - LTA 1985 • Construction disputes • Personal injury • Surveyor negligence • Double glazing & conservatories

Compulsory purchase: • Claims for compensation on compulsory purchase for most types of industrial & commercial building & most categories of land, except agricultural • Calculation of business disturbance as a result of compulsory acquisition • Valuation: • Valuation of most types of industrial & commercial building & most categories of land, except agricultural • Restrictive covenants: • Appraisal of sums to be paid for lifting of restrictive covenants affecting land & buildings under ...

Lease renewals • Rent reviews • Valuations

Valuations of residential property in the Southampton postcode areas • Negligence relating to the carrying out of building surveys & homebuyer reports in the same area where valuations are included & a wider area where it is not • Provision of Expert Reports in respect of building works, conservatories & double glazing • I have experience of single joint expert valuations & undertaken determinations of disputes as a single joint expert • I have given evidence in the High Court & County Court & to ...

Valuation of residential property • Consideration of structural defects • Professional negligence of property professionals & solicitors • Boundary disputes • Effect of above matters on property values • Surveying, professional negligence • Structural surveying, professional negligence

Care matters: • Assessment of parents involved in non-accidental injury or neglect of children • Assessment of mental health problems & personality disorder & its impact on parenting ...

Assessment of criminal responsibility • Assessment of fitness to plead • Assessment of psychiatric aspects of compensation • Assessment of causes & treatment of aggression • Assessment of sexual criminal behaviour • Assessment of fire-setting behaviour • Assessment of testamentary capacity • Assessment of psychiatric aspects of child custody cases • Mental Health Act • Assessment of homicide cases • Diminished responsibility • Assessment of insanity • Reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals • Reports in respect of claims ...

Care of elderly people in care homes • Nursing care of older people with mental health problems in hospitals or nursing homes • Suspected abuse & neglect • All categories include people who suffer from dementia & physical frailty • Nurses who work with older people who are in care homes • Mental Capacity Act assessment • NHS continuing care assessment • NHS continuing care assessment • Independent reviews & serious untoward incident investigations • Serious case reviews • Adult protection investigations

Having trained in forensic psychiatry, general adult psychiatry & rehabilitation psychiatry, I presently work as a Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist. I regularly act as an expert witness in criminal cases. I have expertise in the following areas: • Fitness to plead • Capacity to form intent • Diminished responsibility • Insanity • Provocation • Psychological effects of long-term violence ('battered woman's syndrome') • Disposals under the Mental Health Act & dangerousness assessments. I also have experience in ...

Approved under Section (12)2 of the Mental Health Act 1983 • Specialist interest in all aspects of law & medical ethics • Qualified barrister • As an Expert Witness I have considerable experience in preparing psychiatric reports for criminal & civil matters addressing a range of issues, including: • Fitness to plead & stand trial • Capacity to form intent & recklessness • Psychiatric defences as relevant to criminal matters • Defences in murder cases, including diminished responsibility & provocation • ...

Assessment of children & adults for child care proceedings, contact disputes & child protection issues • Cognitive assessments • Learning disabilities & mental capacity • Personality disorders & mental health • Parenting ability affected by alcohol & drug abuse, domestic violence, abuse of children: emotional, sexual & /or physical • Advising on therapeutic & remedial programmes • Special interest in: • Gypsy & travelling families ...

All matters pertaining to adult & old age psychiatry • Particular expertise in: • Psychiatric & psychological sequelae of stress & trauma, particularly post-traumatic stress • Occupational health in relation to psychiatry • Postnatal mental disorder • Medical negligence • In full-time clinical practice • Approved clinician for the purposes of the Mental Health Act

I am a general adult psychiatrist with a special interest in brain injury rehabilitation & experience of forensic work • My work as an expert witness is in the field of the psychiatric effects of personal injury, e.g. brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, & also in relation to clinical negligence & the assessment of capacity

Mental capacity • Post traumatic stress (PTSD) reactions (e.g. road traffic accidents, assault, industrial accidents, disasters) • Personal injury (e.g. brain injury, physical disfigurement) • Fitness to work & occupational stress • Abuse (sexual, emotional, neglect, physical) • Family law (e.g. parenting assessments, domestic violence, neglect, abuse) • Clinical negligence • Psychological effects of physical illness & chronic pain • Assessment of intellectual functioning • Psychometric testing (e.g. anxiety, ...

Child & adolescent development & behaviour • Impact of educational provision on life chances, employability & education • Impact of medical treatment on life chances, employability & education • Impact of head injury on life chances, employability & education • Special Educational Needs, including 'failure to educate' • Bullying (child & adult) • Fitness to plead & mental capacity • Capacity to parent • Adolescent sex abusers • Child & adult learning difficulties

Assessment of children & adults for child care proceedings, contact disputes & child protection issues • Cognitive assessments • Learning disabilities & mental capacity • Personality disorders & mental health • Parenting ability affected by alcohol & drug abuse, domestic violence, abuse of children: emotional, sexual & /or physical • Advising on therapeutic & remedial programmes • Special interest in: • Gypsy & travelling families ...

Assessment of mental capacity • Care proceedings • Child abuse • Family & child issues • Fitness to plead • Parenting assessments • Psychotherapy & counselling

General adult psychiatry • Psychiatry of learning disabilities • Learning disabilities with forensic history • Establishment of mental health illness • Diagnosis & treatment of mental disorders • Providing psychiatric reports for detained persons in police custody

Assessment of the cognitive capacity of a parent to look after her/his children • Assessment of parents' personality & mental health • Assessment of children's cognitive, emotional, behavioural development • Assessment of parent-child attachment & relationship • Risk assessments pertaining to parental/child or relationship issues • Assessment of the impact of a mother's mental health ability to provide care • Assessment of a child's parental relationships following a divorce • Assessment of a child's mental ...

Family proceedings: assessment of adults & children, including domestic violence, substance abuse, non-accidental injury, cognitive functioning & capacity, personality, mental health issues, propensity for violence • I also write reports for criminal court & civil court & have completed the Bond Solon Cardiff University Law School Training for these, in addition to family court • I assess complex cases, PTSD & related disorders • I can offer opinion on therapeutic input & prognosis

Adult psychiatry • Liaison psychiatry • Psychiatric reactions to illness & trauma, including PTSD • Clinical negligence • Factitious disorder & malingering • Mental capacity • Extensive clinical experience in psychiatry of physical disease & trauma • Appointments available in Cardiff, Swansea & Bridgend, plus elsewhere by arrangement

Criminal, Parole Board, Prison & Civil (especially capacity & civil behaviour orders) • Fitness to plead • Fitness to be interviewed • Effective participation in legal proceedings • Insanity • Diminished responsibility • Provocation & loss of control • Duress • Risk assessment & dangerousness • Disposal • Mitigation • Prognosis • Effect of imprisonment on mental health • Parole recommendations • Civil capacity issues • Violent offences • Sexual offences • Arson • Drugs offences • Committed to providing a speedy response to enquiries & ...

I have over 12 years' experience of working within the NHS in learning disability, brain injury, forensic and adult mental health services. Since 2009 I have worked independently in private practice as a treating clinician and expert witness in civil, criminal and family law. I have completed the British Psychological Society's Expert Witness Training levels 1, 2 and 3. Areas of expertise include personal/criminal injury, cognitive functioning, capacity & IQ, suggestibility, parenting assessment ...

Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust) & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer (University of Oxford) • Mental health problems of all kinds in older people • Capacity & incapacity (including current & retrospective testamentary capacity, & LPA & COP3 certificates) • Deprivation of liberty • Mental Health Act work • Psychopharmacology • Dementia, depression, psychosis & anxiety disorders • Negligence • Training provider •

Dr Ben Donner is a Registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health Professions Council, a Chartered Psychologist at the British Psychological Society • Experience has included SJE work, in addition to plaintiff/defendant cases • Areas of expertise include: • IQ & cognitive functioning • Psychometric evaluation • Suggestibility • Compliance • Mental capacity • Dementia assessment • Forensic risk assessment • Diagnosis of autism & Asperger syndrome • Fitness to plead or stand trial ...

Family work • Disability • Psychometric testing • Autistic spectrum disorder - diagnostic assessment • Personality • Asperger's disorder - diagnostic assessment • ADHD • Neuropsychological assessments - brain injury • RTAs, ADHD & PTSD • Criminal law • Immigration • Personal injury • Capacity • Negligence • All the above with adolescents, adults & older adults

Assessment of children, adolescents & parents for public & private law proceedings • Attachment • PTSD • Alcohol & substance misuse • Learning disability • Parenting assessments • Capacity assessments • Domestic violence • Self-harm • Cognitive functioning • Child & adolescent offending behaviour • Working with families of African, Caribbean heritage & other ethnic minority backgrounds, including refugees & asylum seeking families • Assessment of risk • Personality disorder • Adaptive functioning

Post trauma • Accidents • Negligence • Civil & criminal proceedings • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Fellow of Expert Witness Institute • Ex-Consultant at St Martins Hospital, Canterbury • Reports registered under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983 as a specialist in mental illness • Reports on request of Crown Prosecution Services • Assessment of mental state • Reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals

General psychiatry • Independent reports for Mental Health Act 1983 appeals • Psychiatric court reports for criminal & civil proceedings • Post-traumatic stress disorders • Medical negligence, psychiatric aspects • Consultant in charge of psychiatric intensive care unit • Opinion & management of patient detained under section of Mental Health Act either in hospital or in community • Independent reports on parents involved in childcare disputes

Examination of clients for the purpose of writing psychiatric court reports on defendants • Examination & preparation of psychiatric reports in civil cases, e.g. clients suffering mental ill health following a traumatic experience • Assessment & writing of psychiatric reports on mentally ill detained under the Mental Health Act 1983

Psychological functioning: • Assessment of intellectual function, level of mental impairment, suggestibility • Forensic mental health: • All aspects of psychological assessment, including aggression, arson, self-injury • Preparation of reports for mental health review tribunal, local review board • Personality: • Impact of childhood abuse upon personality • Assessment of personality disorder, re-offence risk, mitigating factors, including homicide • Sexual offending: • Assessment & ...

Civil or criminal cases requiring psychiatric reports • Family and child care proceedings ...

General adult psychiatry, including specific areas of testamentary capacity, fitness to plead & /or stand trial, psychological trauma due to accidents, industrial or criminal injury • Mental illness in relation to civil & /or criminal proceedings, including psychiatric aspects of homicide, violence & sexual offending • Regular reporting to the courts & /or defence counsels on psychiatric morbidity in mentally abnormal offenders, & testifying to the courts as an expert witness • Medical Member of the ...

Claims for post-traumatic stress following injury, war, industrial accidents, road traffic accidents, negligence, etc. • Pension assessment disputes for teachers & police • Assessment of testamentary capacity, psychiatric competence • Court of protection & Mental Health Act work • Adjudication of will disputes • Special expertise in psychiatric problems in old age • Adjudication of complaints regarding medical negligence • Forces • Public services pension adjudication

Forensic psychiatry: reports, assessments for courts & solicitors • Mental Health Act: independent assessment for tribunals • Compensation claims: assessment of psychiatric sequelae such as post-traumatic stress, depressions, anxiety & other psychiatric disorders

Fitness to be interviewed, detained & plead • Mental state at the time of the alleged offence • Significance of alcohol intoxication or drunkenness • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Psychiatric assessment of arsonists • Role of morbid jealousy in violent crimes • Psychological & psychiatric sequelae of trauma • Independent patient assessment ...

Child sexual abuse • Child treatability, in sexual abuse • Child neglect & abuse • Parenting capacity • Family assessment • Psychiatric assessment in adoption • Psychiatric assessment in custody disputes • Psychological effects of injury • Child mental health • Family therapy • Adolescent mental health • Assessment of significant harm • Adolescent sex offending • Dr Bentovim is Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London

Psychiatric & psychological consequences of road traffic accidents • Assault victims • Crime victims • Post-traumatic stress disorder due to any cause • Psychiatric assessment of criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead • Fitness to be interviewed in custody • Pre-sentence reports • Mental disorder as defence • Healthcare & medical negligence, mental health • Mental Health Act 1983, independent reports for tribunals, disciplinary committees & trade unions • Assessment of anxiety disorders • Depression • Alcoholism ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder • Medico-legal & criminal related psychiatric reports undertaken • Accident psychiatry • Psychiatric aspects of: • Road traffic accidents • Industrial accidents • Repetitive strain injury • Alcoholism • Psychiatric assessments • Malpractice • Mental Health Act (Section 12 approved) • Psychological sequelae ...

Psychiatry, including: • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Personal injury • Psychosis • Addictions • Psychiatric assessment • Criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead • Witness assessment • Mental disorders • Dangerousness • Mental Health Act reviews

Over 30 years' experience in general psychiatry & psychological therapies • Active in clinical practice • Trained in all aspects of medico-legal work • Entered on APIL & AvMA approved lists • Good working relationships with local firms • Home visits undertaken • Reports prepared at short notice • Personal injury • Trauma sequelae • Stress & anxiety • Eating disorders • Assessment of mental disorder & fitness to plead • Psychiatric care & competence • Parenting assessment • Families & mental illness • Matrimonial disputes • ...

All aspects of general adult psychiatry, including forensic, alcohol dependence, drug addiction • Mental Health Act appeals • Psychiatric sequelae of injuries • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Stress-related psychiatric disorders

Independent evaluation of psychological & psychiatric problems, including criminal cases • Reviews of Mental Health Act detentions • Family law an area of particular expertise

Personal injury, particularly road traffic accidents & PTSD • Accidental injuries • Injuries sustained in the workplace • Mental health & deafness • Assessment of clients with communication problems • Forensic psychiatry reports • Reports for industrial tribunals on deafness & tinnitus • Reports on acquired deafness due to ototoxic drugs • Reports for health insurance claims • Fitness to work • Child protection & family proceedings ...

Post-traumatic stress disorder & other psychiatric states following accident, crime & other • Psychiatric nursing opinion regarding nursing procedures, violence in psychiatric settings, suicidal self-injurious behaviour, nurse education & nursing management

General Practitioner, Forensic Physician Tutor in Legal Medicine, University of Oxford • Lecturer in Forensic Medicine, University College, Dublin • Forensic Medical Examiner for Thames Valley Police & Metropolitan Police Service • Approved Section 12 Mental Health Act (1983) • Lectures & runs courses on clinical, forensic & legal medicine • Honorary Secretary, Royal Society of Medicine Section for Clinical Forensic & Legal Medicine • Author of A Guide to General Practice, Blackwell Scientific Publications • ...

Consultant in adult psychiatry, including responsibility for local secure unit • Experience as an expert in both civil & criminal proceedings related to psychiatric disorder, both reactions to injury & other mental illness • Trained as a single joint expert • Published on mood disorders, particularly manic depression • Book: Bipolar Disorder - Your Questions Answered • Associate Lecturer, University of Cambridge • Member of Section 12 Approval Panel (Mental Health Act)

Adult psychiatric reports for family law proceedings only, including both public law (child care proceedings) & private law matters • Assessment of mental incapacity

Psychiatric aspects of personal injury & medical negligence

Psychiatric reports for persons detained in secure conditions • Gender-specific (especially female) psychiatric issues • Reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals • Mental Health Act 1983 assessments • Psychiatric reports in criminal & civil cases • Assessment of: fire-setting behaviour, homicide cases, insanity, fitness to plead, sexual offending, violent offending • Assessment for: claims for sexual abuse, child custody cases, testamentary capacity

Psychological trauma secondary to accident or work-related stress • Criminal cases with associated psychiatric illness • Mental Health Act work • Medical malpractice • Cases of competence in elderly individuals • Parent assessment for care proceedings

Mental illness • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Child care • Testamentary capacity • Court of Protection • Forensic psychiatry • Mental Health Act • Psychotherapy • Road traffic accidents • Mental Health Review Tribunals

General psychiatric assessment: • Mental illness • Personality disorder • Borderline personality disorder • Psychiatric assessment: • Criminal proceedings • Civil proceedings (after accidents, criminal negligence) • Medical retirement & pensions • Permanent health insurance • Adults involved in child abuse proceedings (including joint instructions)

Expertise in mental capacity & incapacity to include Lasting Powers of Attorney, testamentary capacity & disputed wills • Additional expertise in personal injury claims (including psychotropic drug injury), & assessment of parental capacity in child & family proceedings • Special interest in learning disability, to include autism & Asperger's syndrome • Persons assisted by the Legal Services Commission considered • Reports normally prepared within 8 weeks of instruction

Independent social work family assessments, residential & community based • Child protection, including physical, emotional & sexual abuse • Comprehensive risk assessments • Parents with learning difficulties • Parents with mental health problems • Parents with drug or alcohol problems or other addictions • Young parents • Children with special needs • Family mediation • Multi-cultural expertise • Advising on the appropriate use of family assessments • Professional consultancy • Family reunification • Permanency ...

Mental illness in adults • NB Dr Sireling does not undertake forensic (criminal) cases

Social work & social care: child welfare, community care, residential care, mental health, etc. • Human relations issues: stress, bullying & harassment, discrimination, etc. • Higher education policy & practice: organisational learning, training & development

Psychiatry & psychiatric disorders • Elderly/old age psychiatry • Offender assessment • Psychiatric assessment • Testamentary capacity • Dangerousness & risk assessment • Mental Health Act & reviews

Registered with the GMC as a Specialist in Forensic Psychiatry • Member of Royal College of Psychiatrists • Fellow of Royal College of Psychiatrists • Member of Society of Expert Witnesses & Expert Witness Institute • Holder of LLM in Mental Health Law from the University of Northumbria & Master of Medical Science (MMedSci) in Clinical Psychiatry from the University of Leeds ...

Extensive experience of appearing at court & tribunals • Also instructed as a joint expert witness & assessor for insurance companies • Fields of expertise include: • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Personal injury • Psychosis • Addictive behaviour • Criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead • Witness assessment • Mental disorder • Dangerousness • Road traffic offences • Drink-drive offences • Mental Health Act reviews • Regularly instructed in civil & criminal cases

General psychiatry • Eating disorders • Mental health & deafness • Medico-legal issues in psychiatric cases • Preparation of psychiatric reports in civil & criminal cases

General adult psychiatry • All kinds of mental disorder • Experienced in psychopharmacology • Drugs used in the treatment of mental disorder • Mood disorders • Manic depressive illness • Bipolar mood disorder & depression • Somali mental health • Psychosocial effects of Khat use ...

Health care • Nursing care • Hospital care • Care in the community • Mental health care • Nursing home care • Residential care home care • Manual handling reports • Personal injury • Health authority & local authority disputes • Mental Health Review Tribunals ...

Medico-legal problems related to substance misuse, as well as mental health problems with or without substance misuse issues

I have 38 years' experience as a practitioner, senior manager, chief officer, university professor and consultant in the social care and health field. My special areas of expertise are in mental health, child care, learning disability and organisations. I am also able to consider historical and policy issues.

I provide psychiatric reports in criminal & civil matters, as well as serve as an expert witness • I have a special interest in transcultural psychiatry (including Refugee Mental Health), PTSD (including road traffic accidents) as well as in criminal matters (7 years' experience from Criminal Justice Mental Health Team) • I am able to perform consultations in English, Swedish & German • I have more than 20 years' experience in a senior position (including management) & I feel confident within most ...

Mental Health Review Tribunals - assessment of psychological need & risk in relation to individuals detained under the MHA (1983) • Personal injury claims - deaf & hearing clients • Criminal cases: fitness to plead, intellectual ability & impact of deafness, risk assessment & risk management, mental health & deafness • Mental health & trauma • Family/child care proceedings: assessments of deaf & hearing adults in relation to child care proceedings; presence/absence of a learning disability & the impact ...

Medico-legal assessments of children & young people & their families in public law (care proceedings - Single Joint Expert) & private law (contact & residence) • Advice to Social Services & courts on placement, residential & fostering • Advice on therapeutic input for successful placement • Youth offending: assessment for ADHD, autism, dangerousness, fitness to plead • Risk assessment, presence of mental disorder & pre-sentencing assessments • Personal injury in children & adolescents

Personal injury • Medical negligence • Housing in relation to mental disorder • Adult survivors of sexual abuse • Independent reports for patients detained under the Mental Health Act

Mental health & family • Parenting & the child • Child protection & psychology of the family • Psychological treatment for accident victims • PTSD & treatment • Stress, anxiety, depression - causes & treatment

Expertise in mental capacity & incapacity to include Lasting Powers of Attorney, testamentary capacity & disputed wills • Additional expertise in personal injury claims (including psychotropic drug injury), & assessment of parental capacity in child & family proceedings • Special interest in learning disability, to include autism & Asperger's syndrome • Persons assisted by the Legal Services Commission welcome • Reports normally prepared within 8 weeks of instruction

Psychiatric reports for tribunals, civil & criminal courts • Assessment & diagnosis of mood & anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, psychosis, post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders & organic mental disorders due to acquired brain injury • Assessment of mentally disordered offenders, including risk assessment • Fitness to plead & stand trial • Fitness to be interviewed • Insanity & diminished responsibility • Mental disorders secondary to acquired brain injury • Section 12(2) Approved

Post trauma • Accidents • Negligence • Civil & criminal proceedings • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Fellow of Expert Witness Institute • Ex-Consultant at St Martins Hospital, Canterbury • Reports registered under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983 as a specialist in mental illness • Reports on request of Crown Prosecution Services • Assessment of mental state • Reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals

Assessments & investigations for & design of spoil tips, lagoons, wastewater ponds & stock piles at mines & quarries • Preparation of reports for Quarries Regulations, 1999 (Regulations 32 & 33) for both rock & spoil slopes • Contractual matters relating to the construction or removal of tips & rockfaces • Accommodation of tips & lagoons within quarry design & the assessment of recoverable minerals & volumes of waste for disposal • Also subsidence & other effects of underground mining • ...

Valuations, appraisal of: furniture, paintings, works of art, etc., relating to: • Insurance • Probate • Family division • Capital gains • Inheritance tax • Family heirlooms • Loss through theft, fire or water • Advice on restoration • Fakes & forgeries • Auction law • Sale of Goods Act • Misrepresentation Act • Trades Description Act • General advice on selling works of art (where, when, etc.) • General advice on any subject relating to chattels, works of art, etc. • Mr Weller is a former Senior Director of Sotheby's

A pharmaceutical physician, highly experienced in pharmaceutical regulatory clinical expert reports, able to give a regulatory quality written opinion in any civil or criminal case where there is a question as to whether a medicine or illegal substance has influenced disease, physiology or behaviour, or is in some other way relevant to the proceedings. Cases in which complex causality is an issue, or where there is differing academic opinion, are a particular strength, as is pharmacokinetics of ...

Environmental noise impact assessment • Measurement of noise & vibration • Sound insulation • Road traffic noise • Railway noise • Noise, nuisance • Industrial noise • Noise, planning • Building acoustics • Recreation noise

Noise & vibration: • Abatement notices • Analysis & control • Nuisance • Environmental impact assessment • Pollution control & surveys • Planning appeals & public inquiries • Acoustics (buildings & architectural) • Sound insulation • Entertainment noise • Construction noise & vibration • Occupational noise • Air, rail & road transportation noise & vibration • Licensing • Air conditioning & ventilation systems

Nuisance from dust, odour & noise • Environmental permitting under IPPC, appeals & statutory notices • Technological pollution controls, including determination of BPM, BPEO & BAT • Atmospheric emissions monitoring & air quality modelling • Environmental management systems & audits • Experienced in wide range of industrial processes, commercial, educational & residential development

Architecture generally, particularly: • Residential work • Refurbishment, conversion & alteration schemes • Professional practice • Party Wall matters • Defects & building failures • Town planning • Educational schemes • Commercial schemes • Fee scales & payment on quantum meruit basis

Building surveying: • Structural surveys & valuation • Boundary disputes • Party wall administration • Building defect diagnosis • Construction & contract administration • Building disputes • Subsidence damage • Leasehold dilapidations • Duties of a Chartered Surveyor or Valuer & negligence • Double glazing & conservatory disputes • Fire damage • Fire precautions & means of escape • Kitchen & joinery installation disputes ...

Analysis of defective building construction/design • Negligent building contract administration • Building contract disputes • Negligent building surveys of property • Dilapidations • Boundary disputes

Building disputes • Scott schedules for construction work • Schedules of dilapidation • Schedules of condition • Loss assessment regarding construction works • Building contract & subcontract disputes • JCT forms of contract & subcontract • Party wall matters • Formerly P. Burkill of Burkill Johnson Chartered Surveyors & lately Caxtons Surveyors

ADR support • Boundary disputes • Party wall matters • Professional negligence • Expert witness for construction contract disputes • New-build housing • Refurbishment housing • New-build commercial buildings • Healthcare premises

Relating to building surveying & building matters: • Contractual disputes in the minor works sectors of the commercial & residential markets • Leasehold & tenancy disputes • Dilapidations • Party wall awards • Also former Corporate Building Engineer

Architect's negligence • Building defects • Construction contract disputes • Personal injury, falls down stairs, site accidents • Personal injury, adaptation of dwellings to accommodate resulting disabilities • Party walls • Boundary disputes • Construction trouble-shooting • Offices also in Manchester, Leeds & Chester

Structural building surveys • Homebuyers reports • Residential valuations, including mortgage valuations • Analysis of residential building defects • Boundary disputes • Defective residential building works • Defective replacement windows & conservatories • Reports relating to accident sites & claims for compensation, including inspection of sites & assessment of maintenance claims • Landlord's failure to repair residential tenanted properties

Construction & building contracts • Building insurance claims • Building disputes • Party wall awards • Rights of light • Architects' appointments • Architects' services • Construction (Design & Management) Regulations 2007 • Construction technology • Building defects • Boundary disputes • CDM coordinator services

Involved in providing expert evidence in disputes regarding the following: • The adequacy of materials, workmanship & methods employed or specified in building works • Allegations of professional negligence in the performance or advice of building surveyors or allied professions • The interpretation of responsibilities set out in leases with regard to repairs, service charges & similar obligations arising out of the occupation of land & buildings

Extensive experience of building & contractual disputes • Investigation & diagnosis of building defects & preparation of Scott schedules • Advice on costings & building technical matters • Application of building law to boundary disputes • Landlord & tenant disputes, dilapidations & lease renewals • Residential, commercial & industrial valuations, including rental valuations • Insurance claims disputes • Professional negligence of construction professionals • Construction health & safety management disputes

Building defects & remedial works, including listed buildings • Specialist in commercial & domestic subsidence, heave & landslip • Structural design in timber, reinforced concrete, steel & masonry, fire & flood damage • JCT Minor Works form of contract • Structural conversions & refurbishment • Structural failure due to cracking, settlement & deflection • Disputes between engineers, engineers & employers, contractors & employers, contractors on defects & constructional errors/quality, compliance with statutory ...

Building contract disputes: financial & contractual analysis • Dilapidations claims • Dampness & disrepair claims • Party Wall Act • Defective or incomplete building works • Building defects: commercial & residential • Boundary disputes • Access to neighbouring land • Insolvency claims in construction contracts • Mr Frias-Robles is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) • Party wall expert & Chairman of the Pyramus and Thisbe Club (Wessex Branch)

General building work • Roofing • Windows • Rising damp in buildings • Condensation • Arbitration • Independent expert • Dilapidations • Right of light • Party walls ...

Structural engineering: professional indemnity claims • Civil engineering: foundations, roads & drainage • Construction & building-related matters • Health & safety at work & on construction sites • Personal injury, including sports injuries • Defects in the structure & fabric of buildings • Accidents at work • Lifting & mechanical handling • Temporary works, including access platforms & ladders • Building Regulation compliance • Access & egress from buildings, including ramps

Property-related valuations: commercial & residential • Boundary disputes • Professional negligence: surveys & valuations • Defective building works • Dilapidations claims • Subsidence claims

Subsidence of buildings & tree roots • Party wall & boundary disputes • Domestic drainage, soakaways (SUDS), flooding & sewerage • Environmental & groundwater contamination • Slope stability • Building care & repair • Geotechnical & hydrogeological appraisals • Personal accidents on highway pavements

Domestic building disputes • Building surveying • Valuation disputes, including professional negligence matters • Surveying & valuing • Boundary disputes • Party wall matters

Commercial & domestic property building disputes • Boundary disputes • Dilapidations • Construction defects • Party wall matters • Contract administration • Building maintenance • Renovation • Repair • Professional negligence • Building surveys • Building defect disputes

Boundary disputes • Party wall matters, including joint appointments & third surveyor appointments • Member of RICS neighbourhood disputes panel

Independent Chartered Surveyors & Valuers covering all UK postcodes • Expert witness advice & reports: residential & commercial valuation, boundary disputes, building defects, party walls, negligence & rent reviews • Wide experience of court, arbitration & tribunal proceedings • Quality assured to ISO 9001

33 years' experience as an expert witness across a wide range of construction failures & disputes, including: • Building construction defects • Structural design errors or omissions • Foundation failures • Underpinning, piling, subsidence & heave • Retaining walls & basements • Defective drainage • Design, specification or workmanship defects in masonry, timber, concrete, steelwork • Professional negligence claims • Party Wall Act • Structural damage by adjacent works • Experienced in preparing comprehensive reports ...

Valuation: commercial & residential • Building pathology • Dilapidations • Professional negligence • Building disputes • Boundaries • Party walls • Rights to light ...

Building defects • Defective workmanship & construction defects • Survey reports • Mobile homes • Dilapidations • Architectural design • Party Wall etc. Act • Fire risk assessment

Christopher Miers is a Chartered Architect and Chartered Arbitrator and is the Managing Director of Probyn Miers Limited. He is an expert witness, arbitrator, mediator, adjudicator and dispute board member with over 30 years' industry experience, and is listed on the FIDIC President's List of international adjudicators. He has an in-depth knowledge of building regulations and construction legislation. ...

Building surveying • All aspects of building litigation, including boundary disputes & defective construction • Subsidence claims, including subsequent remedial measures

Personal injury: • Expert reports & single joint expert reports with regard to personal injury, including slips & trips • Expert reports into accommodation needs of disabled people • Construction defects: • Advice & reports into defects in commercial buildings & industrial elements • Construction contract matters: • Reports with regard to delays on site • Construction troubleshooting: • Investigation into causes of delays & implementation of strategies to complete works on site ...

Architects' professional negligence & implied contract terms • Architects' appointments, contracts & fees • Building contract disputes • Building defects & failures • Management of contract claims, including adjudication response • Land & property disputes, including matters referred to Lands Tribunal • Determination of liability within the design team • Historical analysis of buildings • Execution of measured surveys • Preparation of visualisations • Preparation of expert reports • Attendance at court • Participation ...

Urban Designer & Town Planner with 36 years' professional experience in the private & public sectors, with expertise in strategic & detailed development planning • Specialist areas: • Masterplanning • Planning feasibility studies • Environmental assessments • Urban design & conservation studies • Listed buildings • Environmental & planning law • Planning appeals • Negotiating planning agreements • Principal author of Planning Applications, now in its third edition, published by Blackwells ...

Clinical forensic medicine • Forensic medical examinations • Sexual assault, male or female • Interpretation of injuries & forensic samples • Wounds, interpretation of type, causes & timescale • Alcohol, drugs • Poison, misuse • Legal aspects of traffic medicine • Road Traffic Act, its application • Suicide • Suspicious deaths • Time of death calculation • The Police & Criminal Evidence Act, its application

Incident & occurrence analysis • Decision & judgement taking • Management of training • Compliance audit - law, rules & regulations • Police uses of firearms • Tactics • Command - strategic, tactical & operational • Training • User competence • Deployment & command decisions • Option choice • Tactical outcomes • Post-incident procedures • Ethical & behaviour standards • Range construction

Examination, deconstruction & investigation of criminal and civil cases • Forensic case analysis • Police & CID operations • Criminal intelligence • Surveillance & covert methodology • Informants & protected witnesses • Major police investigations • Resource management • Effective policy making • I offer a strategic analysis of case management • I am not a private investigator

Pest control, especially vertebrates • 45 years' experience • Eatons (Solicitors) - rats - 2007 • Randell Lloyd Jenkins & Martin Solicitors - rats - 2007 • Goodge Law - badgers - 2009 • Ross Aldridge - wasps - 2011

Money laundering & confiscation under POCA 2002, commercial fraud, evasion of VAT & duty, carousel fraud, theft • Wrongful & fraudulent trading & director disqualification, in particular in relation to insolvency • Preference • Sale at undervalue • Conspiracy to defraud • Mortgage & benefit fraud • Cheat • False accounting

Providing clear & independent financial analysis & evaluation of arguments towards establishing economic measures of damages & loss • Including: contractual & tortious losses • Loss of profits • Business interruption • Reinstatement claims • Business & share valuation • Corporate finance • Intellectual property • Construction claims • Breach of warranties • Professional negligence • Fraud & financial irregularities • Money laundering, e-commerce & internet fraud • Proceeds of Crime Act cases, confiscation of assets & ...

Criminal litigation support • Tax cheat • Benefit, VAT & duty fraud • Money laundering offences • Proceeds of Crime Act • Commercial fraud • Drugs offences • Civil matters, including: divorce settlements, partnership disputes, valuation of business, loss of earnings claims

Quantum, loss of profit, particularly in insurance claims • Business interruption following fire, flood or burglary • Personal injury quantum • Professional negligence claims • Forensic accounting & litigation support • Security for costs application • Employment disputes • Business valuations • Matrimonial disputes • Proceeds of crime • Fraud • Expert determination

Forensic accounting reports for claimant & defendant actions • Accountancy • Auditing • Personal injury, including loss of earnings, loss of pension benefits, fatality & dependency claims • Medical negligence, including financial aspects, care & rehabilitation, structured settlements • Professional negligence: taxation advice • Commercial accountancy, including business disputes, partnership disputes, consequential loss, business & share valuations, breach of contract, business interruption • Theft & false ...

Valuation of shares & business • Business interruption insurance claims • Loss of profits or earnings • Partnership disputes • Matrimonial disputes • Proceeds of crime

Will accept instructions on cases involving veterinary matters, including professional negligence cases • Expertise in explaining horse matters to a lay audience (veterinary correspondent for 'Horse & Hound' magazine, author of several books for horse owners) • Expertise in investigating equine veterinary problems for the leading equine insurance companies • Trained as a single joint expert • Member of The Chamber of Experts • Will accept instructions in Protection of Animals Act cases in equine, farm & pet animals

Reservoirs • New & raised works, remedial works & modifications, including flood alleviation schemes, ash lagoons & similar water bodies • Statutory activities & advice under the Reservoirs Act 1975 • Flood alleviation & river engineering • Water engineering, excluding plant & equipment • Geotechnical work: slope instability, retaining walls, foundations, site investigation, earthworks, instrumentation, risk assessment, pipelines, buried structures, piling & ground treatment • Bioengineering • Geotechnical ...

Road traffic accident investigation & reconstruction • Interpretation of tyre marks & vehicle damage • Speed calculation • Tyre examination • Visual tachograph chart examination & interpretation • Vehicle examination • Vehicle handling characteristics • Seat belt examination & usage • Photographic services • Report validation & interpretation • Plan drawings • Locus reports • Interviewing police officers & witnesses • Court attendance & evidence presentation • Trial & inquest notes • General traffic enquiries

Inspection of all types of vehicles for litigation purposes: • Motorcycles, motor cars, motor sport, classics, LGV, motor homes, caravans, PSV, HGV, horseboxes & trailers • Petrol & diesel engine component failure diagnosis, automatic gearboxes, manual gearboxes • Oil & lubricant analysis • Accident investigation, scene reconstruction, scene of RTA plans & photographs • Criminal & civil cases investigated • Stolen vehicle identification • Fire-damaged vehicles • Speeding offences • Tracker systems • Welding failures • ...

Road crash investigation & reconstruction • Road traffic accident investigation & reconstruction • Motor vehicle examinations • Scale plans • Expert reports • Photography • Video

Road traffic accident investigation & reconstruction • Traffic consultancy • Locus reports & scene examinations • Skid mark analysis • Digital stills & video photography • Highway management, including maintenance, road surface defects & condition • Road & street works • Highway signing • Traffic Regulation Orders • Fatal accident investigation • Witness interview, including experts, eyewitnesses, police officers & offenders • Statement taking in all cases, including criminal & civil - all work CPR compliant • ...

Providers of forensic engineering and scientific advice to the legal professions in both criminal and civil forums • Criminal areas include: • Dangerous driving • Evidence evaluation • Ballistics • Forensic computing • Arson • Explosions • Eyewitness evaluation • Scene illustration • Civil areas include: • Health & safety • RTAs • Employer's liability • IT security

Building construction problems: • Negligence • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Contractual disputes • Contractor & sub-contractor disputes • Improper contract administration (construction) • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Town & country planning: • Listed buildings • Architectural design: • Building conservation • Listed buildings • Design defects (faults) • Architectural defects • Construction works: • Project management (construction) ...

Mechanical engineer specialising in rotating machinery, pumps & pipeline systems, their use & maintenance • Investigation of water fittings & systems to assess their compliance with the UK Water Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999 & the Water Supply (Water Quality) Regulations 2000 & 2001 • Advising on the quality of water fittings & systems design & installation, so as to ensure compliance with the UK Water Regulations above • Advising on the European, British & overseas requirements laid down

Biology & ecology of badgers, foxes, deer & other British wildlife • Horse & stable management, including riding, livery & hunting stables, stud & racing management in Britain, Europe & the USA • Riding accidents & injuries to horses • Equine planning cases • Hunting with hounds, terriers & coursing dogs • Breeding, keeping & using dogs • Welfare, training, aggression & working use • Attacks by dogs • Sporting shotguns, game shooting & vermin control • Shooting accidents

Former professional gamekeeper & Head of Gamekeeping & Wildlife Management, British Association for Shooting & Conservation (BASC) • Expertise in legal & illegal traps & trapping • Gamekeeping, gamebird management & welfare • Poaching of game, deer & fish • Sporting shotguns • Game & live quarry shooting • Shooting accidents • Pest & predator control • Hunting with hounds, terriers & coursing dogs • Cruelty to wild & captive birds • Conflict resolution between public & game shooting activities