I have specialised in the treatment of disturbed adolescents for 29 years • Medical Director of the Regional Adolescent Unit of the North East Thames region from 1975 to 1992 • At St Charles' Youth Treatment Centre for over 18 months as a consultant • Competent to accept instruction on: • Juvenile delinquency • Family disputes & care orders • Marital disputes & custody of children • Parents versus social services • Founder member of the 'Group of Senior Forensic Psychiatrists' at the Portman Clinic • ...

Children: • Psychological issues of attachment • Child protection • Abuse, i.e. emotional, physical, sexual • Behavioural difficulties • Contact • Residence • Fostering & adoption • Cognitive & educational assessments • Therapeutic: • Counselling & therapy with children, particularly adolescent girls • Adults: • Cognitive assessments • Social services: • Child protection issues • Consultancy

Matters involving children or adolescents & families, including parental issues • Also, matters involving families & local authorities

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 ...

Children & adolescents: • Mental health • Psychological trauma • Sexual abuse • Victims & perpetrators • Refugees • Parenting • Child care • Access & custody • Fitness to plead • Mental health tribunals • Asylum applications • I only undertake work with children & adolescents

Family law • Well-known expert dealing with difficult family cases: private law (contact & residence) & public law (care & carers) • Author of Child Abuse, Psychology & the Law (1997) • Author of Psychotherapists as Expert Witnesses; families at breaking point (2005) • Author of articles in Family Law (September 2001, November 2002, May 2006, May 2010) ...

Child psychiatry • Adolescent psychiatry • Family psychiatry • Contact & access disputes • Child residence issues • Adoption disputes • Child abuse • Compensation following abuse, including sexual abuse • Personal injury, psychological impact on children & adolescents • Immigration proceedings, psychological impact on children & adolescents • Care proceedings • Child care proceedings • "Looked after" children • Open adoption • Contact after adoption • Post-adoption contact

Personal injury • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Attachment & care proceedings • Access & custody issues • Parenting & family assessment • Assessment of juvenile offenders • Criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead • Risk assessments • Mental disorder: psychiatric assessment of children & adolescents up to the age of 20 • Medical negligence: children & adolescents up to the age of 20

I am very experienced in working with young people & families, particularly in child neglect & protection, family disturbance, substance abuse & domestic violence. I am a leading authority on adolescence, teenage pregnancy & early parenting, & I have worked with psychopathic personalities & a variety of disorders such as borderline personalities, learning disabilities & with children in situations of physical, emotional & sexual abuse, as well as factitious illness (Munchausen)-type syndromes & ...

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

I am a practising Chartered Clinical Psychologist offering assessment and therapeutic intervention primarily to children and adolescents, but also to selected adults. I have expert witness experience specifically in relation to children and adolescents. Prior cases have concerned child development, custody, contact, abuse (including sexual abuse), trauma (including RTA) and adoption. Cases involving adults relating to specific issues of trauma or sexual violence may also be considered.

Clinical psychology as it applies to the following areas: • Child development & parenting • Family dynamics & attachment issues • Trauma & dissociation • Adolescent self-harm • Criminality & offending • As such, I am able to accept instructions for family law work, criminal, personal injury & private law cases

Family assessments • Child care • Quality of parenting • Attachments within families • General family matters • Psychometric cognitive assessments • Assessments of learning difficulties • Child, adult & family

Assessment of ability • Adults • Children • Criminal • Capacity to participate • Police interview • Special measures for court proceedings • Understanding of caution & documents • Fitness to plead & instruct • Vulnerable witnesses • Suggestibility, functioning & compliance • Learning difficulty & disability • Specific learning difficulty • Dyslexia • Dyspraxia • ADHD • Attention difficulties • Autism • Asperger syndrome • Adjustments & provision to support learning & employment • Psychological & education issues • Childcare • Family ...

Intellectual assessment of children & adults • Developmental & personality assessment • Assessment of emotional disturbance • Assessment of child abuse: physical, sexual, emotional • Assessing witness reliability & fitness to plead • Analysis of verbal, written & video evidence • Mental handicap • Crime & delinquency • Family assessment

Criminal & family assessments • Young, adolescent & adult criminal assessments • Offender assessment of risk & dangerousness • Offenders with learning disabilities • Experience of young offenders & young adults with learning disabilities • Able to engage juries when giving evidence • Parenting assessments • Parenting: contact, access, change & risk • Parenting & risk • Parenting assessment & learning disabilities

Contact • Residence • Children's panel • Education • Criminal (adolescence & adults) • Reparation • Learning difficulties, including adults • Child abuse • Fostering & adoption • Child & adolescent psychology • Immigration appeals ...

I have been a paediatric endocrinologist for the past 30 years. I have a particular interest in adolescent endocrinology, abnormalities of pubertal development & growth. I have a particular interest in both precocious & delayed puberty & the onset of fertility. My research interest covers most areas of paediatric endocrinology. I have a particular interest in psychosocial short stature & associated child abuse. I have had numerous scientific publications on this subject in the medical literature.

General (internal) medicine • Diabetes • Endocrinology • Rheumatic diseases (arthritis) • Neurology • Nerve injuries • Trauma • Dr Coomes is Emeritus Senior Physician, Chelsea & Westminster & Charing Cross Hospitals

Consultant Physician in diabetes & endocrinology at Leicester Royal Infirmary • All aspects of diabetes, hypoglycaemia & complications • Endocrine disorders • General medical conditions

Adult endocrinology, including: • Thyroid diseases • Disorders of calcium metabolism (such as hyperparathyroidism) • Adrenal disease (including Addison's disease & congenital adrenal hyperplasia) • Osteoporosis & metabolic bone disease • Pituitary disease, including: • Hypopituitarism • Growth hormone deficiency • Acromegaly • TSH-secreting pituitary tumours • Prolactinomas • Cushing's disease & non-functioning pituitary tumours

Reproductive Endocrinology Menstrual irregularities • Premenstrual syndrome • Polycystic ovary syndrome • Menopause & premature menopause • Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) • Eating disorders & menstruation • Anorexia nervosa ...

Growth disorders in children • Disorders of puberty • Disorders of sex development • Genetics of endocrine disorders: childhood • General endocrine problems of childhood

Obstetrics (childbirth) & gynaecology • Forensic gynaecology ...

Family planning & female sterilisation • Abnormal smear & management • Surgical complications in gynaecology • Gynaecological operations • Endoscopic surgery in gynaecology • Gynaecological disease • Hormone replacement therapy ...

General gynaecology: • Colposcopy • Urogynaecology • Menopause & endocrinology • Gynaecological surgery • Complications in gynaecological surgery • General obstetrics: • High-risk obstetrics • Caesarean section • Complicated deliveries • Complications arising from poor antenatal care or poor intrapartum care

General obstetrics and gynaecology • Medical negligence expert witness • Complications of gynaecological surgery, including ureteric & bowel injuries • Failed female sterilisation • Early pregnancy problems, including late or missed diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy ...

Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist for 8 years at Heartlands Hospital with an annual birth rate of 7000 • Extensive experience in all aspects of general obstetrics & gynaecology • Author of 40 scientific papers & three chapters • Clinical Director for Theatres & Day Surgery for the Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust • Member of the Birmingham Medico-legal Society • Practising Associate of the Academy of Experts • Included in the Action for Victims of Medical Accidents database

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 ...

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

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

Assessment & diagnosis of children, adolescents & young adults • Treatment of mental health problems • Expertise in the effects of personal injury & medical negligence • Neuropsychological assessment of brain injuries in children • Consultations also offered at the Fitzwilliam Hospital, Peterborough

Child, adolescent & family psychiatry • Assessment of child disturbance & family relationships • ADHD & autistic spectrum disorders • Evaluating abusive families • Evaluating parenting potential • Advising about treatment & other facilities available, etc. • Evaluation of children & their families where there may have been sexual abuse • Effect of bereavement on children • Evaluation of children & their families regarding contact & residence • Evaluation of psychological damage in accident & negligence claims

Disorganised children • Children & adolescents with neuro-developmental processing problems • Children & adolescents who are not fulfilling their potential • Child & adolescent mental health • Family problems & family mediation • Child development • Children & adolescents with educational problems • Care proceedings • Medico-legal report writing • Mediation with schools • Medico-legal mediation

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.

Forensic physician • Personal injuries compensation (whiplash, etc.) • General practice • Mental health

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 ...

Susan van Scoyoc has 30 years of experience as a psychologist and is an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, Foundation Member and Senior Practitioner of the BPS Register for Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy, holds a European Certificate of Specialist Expertise in Psychotherapy, and is a Chartered Scientist. Susan is former registrar and past-chair of the Counselling Psychology Division of the British Psychological Society. Susan is a visiting lecturer to ...

Psychological assessment • Behavioural psychology • Counselling, assessment & testing • Cognitive skills • Clinical & forensic psychology • Depression • Bereavement • Dyslexia • ADD/ADHD testing • Forensic testing • IQ & EQ mental status • Occupational post-traumatic stress • Trauma • Abuse • Road traffic • Children, adults, couples & families • Personality inventory testing & assessment

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 ...

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

Clinical psychology as it applies to the following areas: • Child development & parenting • Family dynamics • Child & adolescent mental health • Adult mental health • Criminality & offending • Trauma • As such, I am able to accept instructions for family law cases, criminal cases & personal injury

I am a dual-qualified Chartered Clinical Psychologist & Chartered Forensic Psychologist • I have provided expert witness since 1998 • I am competent to accept instructions in respect of: • Assessment across the life-span, including assessment of children & adolescents involved with the criminal justice system • Assessment of dangerousness • Assessment of fitness to plead & capacity to stand trial • Assessment of suggestibility • Assessment of autistic spectrum disorder • Personality disorder assessment • ...

I have held post-qualification positions in the areas of: • Older adult mental health • Adult forensic mental health • Child & adolescent mental health • Young offenders • I am qualified to undertake assessments for Civil, Family & Criminal Courts, including the following issues: • Neuropsychological assessment • Personality & personality disorder • Trauma • Substance misuse • Sexual offending • Violent offending • Risk to self & others • Fitness to plead & stand trial • Suggestibility & false confessions • Domestic ...

Clinical psychology as it applies to the following areas: • Child development • Family dynamics & attachment issues • Trauma & dissociation • Adolescent & child mental health • Cognitive behavioural therapy • Family attachment narrative therapy • Criminality & offending • As such, I am able to accept instructions for family law work, criminal, personal injury & private law areas

All aspects of child & adolescent neurology, in particular: • Traumatic brain injury • Cerebral palsy • Epilepsy

Personal injury with particular expertise in traumatic brain injury, spinal cord & peripheral nerve disease • Clinical negligence - neurological negligence & neurological results of non-neurological negligence

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

Childhood nutrition & growth • Effect of nutrition & growth on long-term health & development • Neonatal hypoglycaemia & its long-term adverse effects • Nutritional aspects of child abuse • Research on infant, child & adolescent nutrition (over 380 scientific articles & books) • Impact of nutrition & metabolism on the brain • Nutrition & bone health • Nutrition & cardiovascular health • Nutrition & diabetes • Prematurity • Obesity • Vitamins • Malnutrition & starvation • Child care & welfare

I am a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and have worked in this speciality for more than 20 years. My areas of expertise include children and young people (birth to age 18 years) with gastrointestinal or digestive disorders, including: inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis & Crohn's disease), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), gastroenteritis, food poisoning, intestinal failure, short bowel syndrome (short gut), malnutrition, failure ...

Gastroenterology & general medicine, especially diseases of the intestines, inflammatory bowel disease & functional disorders of the gut • Nutrition, diet & health • Endoscopy • The bacterial flora of the gut & its effects on health

Paediatrics (particularly cerebral palsy), & young adults with congenital impairment

Paediatrics (particularly cerebral palsy) & young adults with congenital impairment, including visual impairment

Midwifery • Diabetes in pregnancy

Depression • Anxiety • Stress management • Psychosexual problems • Relationship problems • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Work-related problems • Psychiatric nursing issues, including forensic psychiatry

Psychiatric & forensic psychiatric nursing: specifically risk assessment & management of violence, suicide & self-harm of those in contact or recently in contact with psychiatric services • Cognitive behaviour therapy • Deaths in custody

15 years' experience in psychiatry • Postgraduate training & experience acquired in the UK & Ireland • Extensive medico-legal work experience • 1. Provision of psychiatric reports for firms of solicitors: assessment of psychological consequence of personal injury; independent opinion on psychiatric assessment - diagnosis & recommendations • 2. Provision of psychiatric reports to the courts, Department of Social Services & children & family • 3. Psychiatric reports for hospital managers & Mental ...

Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital since 1992, with teaching, research & administrative responsibilities • Experienced in preparing reports for court as a single joint expert • Instructed by CAFCASS/guardian in child care cases • Complex reports including contact & the effects of abuse • Has acted in cases of medical negligence & is experienced in issues relating to PI claims, e.g. diagnosis & treatment of PTSD

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

Psychological assessments involving children & families • Assessment of children's needs in relation to child protection matters before the courts • Assessment of learning, emotional & behavioural difficulties of children & young people • Work involving young people in secure accommodation • Assessment of parents, parenting skills & deficits • Analysis of spoken discourse in forensic matters • Assessment of children's needs regarding contact with birth families & other significant individuals

Psychological assessment of children/adolescents/adults • Criminal • Family law • Employment/tribunal • Negligence • Chartered Scientist ...

Educational psychology (children, adolescents & adults) • Assessments for special educational needs • Educational negligence • Assessment of adult offenders suspected of demonstrating mental & social impairments • Emotional & behavioural difficulties • Parenting competence & behaviour management in child care • Assessment of interviewing techniques & responses (police & disclosure) & communication skills • Implications of hearing impairment • Dyslexia & specific learning difficulties • Autistic spectrum ...

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 ...

As a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, I lead a team of psychologists & psychotherapists who provide specialist assessment & expert witness work within their own area of expertise. We provide assessment & therapeutic intervention with a wide variety of cases nationwide. ...

Assessments of intellectual functioning, suggestibility, compliance & personality • Adult & adolescent psychological problems • Stress, health & job performance • Psychometric testing • Equal opportunities • Recruitment & selection assessment • Specialist training in assessment of reliability of witness statements & post-traumatic stress disorder

Autism, autistic spectrum disorders • Asperger's syndrome • Learning disabilities • Specific learning disabilities, e.g. dyslexia • Complex behaviour patterns & difficulties • Challenging behaviour assessment • Risk assessments • Cognitive impairments (children & adults) • Assessments & reports to do with diagnosis, needs, management, care plans, care provision, child care proceedings & family matters, contact issues, parenting abilities, etc. • All age groups - children & adults

Adult & child psychological assessment • Young offenders • Offender assessment (psychological) • Witness assessment (psychological) • Family (private & public) • Family & child issues • Family functioning • Care proceedings • Child custody, access & residence • Parenting assessment & fitness to parent • Assessment of attachment styles • Assessment of cognitive ability • Assessment of suggestibility & compliance in people with learning difficulties (including police interviews) • Preparation of psychological reports ...

Personal psychological injury (claimant, defence & single joint expert - adults, children & adolescents) • Disfigurement (scarring & amputations) • Police work • Pregnancy & birth & allied matters ...

Educational & psychological assessment of children & young people • Specialist in autism spectrum disorders

Child & adult assessments (educational, paediatric neuro-psychology & occupational/work issues) • Assessments undertaken for care proceedings, cognitive & intellectual ability, social adaptive functioning, family functioning • Parenting assessments • Family & child issues • Learning difficulties - children & adults (school & workplace) • Stress & anxiety • Disability discrimination & reasonable adjustments • Assessments & rehabilitation of children following neurological trauma • Full member of the Expert ...

• Independent practice of 90 registered psychologists • A nationwide practice with over 90 clinical, counselling and forensic psychologists working in the contexts of civil, criminal and child and family law. Founded in 2000 by Dr Sue Candy, the practice places psychologists with extensive experience in a vast array of specialisms, including: ...

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 ...

Chartered/Practitioner Psychologists & Expert Witnesses • Personal injury • Family • Forensic • Clinical • Educational • Occupational • Counselling & therapy

• Leading provider of expert witnesses in all specialities • All experts are BPS & /or HPC registered • Provision of experts for criminal & civil courts & tribunals • All geographical regions across the UK • Skilled in providing quotes for funding bodies (e.g. LSC) • Personalised service & management of cases

Dr King specialises both in assessments of adults & children in the context of family proceedings & private law disputes, along with forensic issues (risk assessment, parole board reports, pre-sentencing reports, psychopathy assessments, veracity of evidence, fitness to plead & culpability). She also undertakes personal injury work. Recent instructions have encompassed: ...

PTSD, including RTAs • Stress • Depression • Phobias • Paranoia • Family work • Juvenile delinquency • Risk assessments • Generalised anxiety • Anger management • Violence • Sex offending • Criminal behaviour • Personality disorder • Emotional problems • Substance use

Risk assessments of perpetrators of sexual abuse or rape with learning disabilities • Investigative assessments of children & adults with learning disabilities where sexual abuse is suspected but not known • Parenting assessments of parents with learning disabilities who are in proceedings or in danger of having their children removed • Family assessments where parents & /or children have learning disabilities • Prognosis reports for children & adults who have experienced sexual or domestic abuse • ...

Childcare proceedings: • Cognitive function & vulnerability assessments • Attachment assessments • Contact dispute issues • Child development assessments • Neuropsychological assessments • Psychological state assessments • Criminal proceedings: • Fitness to plead • Witness reliability • Psychological state assessments • Cognitive function & vulnerability assessments • Neuropsychological assessments • Pre-sentencing reports • Civil/personal injury: • Road traffic accidents • Impact of trauma

In private practice since 1980 • Provided psychological reports & expert testimony in civil & criminal cases in the UK, the USA & Bermuda • Experience in: criminal law, personal injury, prison law, employment matters, immigration, child & family matters, & educational needs

• Psychological assessment of adults & adolescents • Assessment of severe PTSD & other related conditions, such as dissociative, anxiety & adjustment disorders • Assessment & therapy for the sequelae of traumatic events, including: RTAs, torture, interpersonal violence, rape & sexual assault • Assessment of UK military veterans • Immigration & asylum cases • Transcultural assessment & assessment of individuals using an interpreter •HPC registered ...

Personal injury, assessment of psychological sequelae of road traffic accidents & work accidents • Post-traumatic stress disorder, bereavement, travel anxieties, depression, pain management, adjustment disorders • Interface between physical & psychological health, including rheumatological conditions & chronic pain • Psychological treatment of all above conditions using cognitive behaviour therapy and EMDR • Psychological reactions to medical negligence ...

Special educational needs • Educational tribunals • Teacher practice & support for learning, adult & child • Educational psychology • Fitness to practice work

Ahimsa (Safer Families) Ltd is an independent agency providing forensic assessments and specialist treatment programmes for parents where domestic violence or child sexual abuse is the primary child protection concern. Domestic violence • Parents' ability to protect • Child sexual abuse • Child physical abuse ...

General urology • Paediatric urology • Adolescent urology • Reconstructive urology • My general urological practice is core & endourological work • I also provide reconstructive urology in both adults & adolescents, with some of my weekly clinical sessions undertaken at the regional children's hospital