Accident investigations • Chemical analysis investigations • Fires • Explosions • Forensic evidence • Marine fire investigations • Marine cargo loss & contaminations

Drugs • Controlled drugs & drug-related offences • Arson & fire investigation • Alcohol & drink-related offences • Blood traces • DNA & blood grouping • Contact traces • Glass & paint • Footprints • Explosives & explosions • Firearms • Ballistics • Forensic science, general • Toxicology, general • Criminalistics • Drugs, analysis of • Associates available for document examination, voice identification, audiotape verification & fingerprints • Over 40 years' experience in forensic science, predominantly in senior crown positions

I served 32 years in the London Fire Brigade gaining experience in firefighting, fire safety, risk assessment & fire investigation. For the last 12 years I specialised in fire investigation & reported my findings in over 1,000 fires. I obtained my Doctor of Philosophy degree with the thesis Lessons from the Investigation & Analysis of Real Fires • Now semi-retired, I can offer an attentive & prompt service

Fire & explosion • Pyrotechnics & explosives • Industrial & chemical hazards • Incident investigation

Chemical engineering investigations • Contamination assessment • Electrical failure investigations • Fires & explosions • Forensic evidence • Marine cargo loss • Marine fire investigations • Materials failures • Mechanical failure investigations • Personal injury • Road traffic accident investigations • Traffic collision • Water leaks • Marine engineering investigations • Metallurgical investigations • Marine firefighting equipment failure investigations

Investigating the causes of fires, explosions, electric shocks, personal injuries, vehicle fires, engineering failures & matters of contractual dispute • Assisting with litigation processes & appearing as expert witness • Training & lecturing in above matters can be provided, especially for continuing professional development

Investigation of industrial & leisure accidents of almost every kind • Preparation of detailed court reports supported by photographs & plans • Manufacturing plant & machinery • Sports, play & leisure • Slips, trips & falls • Manual handling • Woodworking machinery • Work-related upper limb disorders • Consumer product defects • Noise & deafness • Construction work • Fork-lift trucks • Agricultural machinery • Road traffic accidents • Ladders & scaffolding • Fires & explosions • Welding • Hand-arm vibration syndrome

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

Certified Fire Investigator IAAI (Pro-Board USA) • Diploma in Fire Science & Investigation, University of Edinburgh & Institution of Fire Engineers • Investigations into origin & causes of fire • Behaviour of fire & arson recognition • Policy & procedures in firefighting operations • Internal fire & rescue investigations • 2000 cases of all kinds dealt with over 30 years' experience • 164 fire deaths, from murder to accidents • Advice to defence, prosecution & plaintiff's counsel • Legal aid work undertaken

Alcohol: blood, breath, urine • Back calculations • Technical defences • Body fluids: DNA • Chemical analysis • Drugs of abuse • Dyestuffs • Fingerprints • Arson: fire investigations • Footwear impressions • Footprints • Glass • Handwriting • Documents • Hair • Instrument marks • Paint • Palm prints • Textiles: fibres, yarns, manufacturing • Toxicology • Tyre prints

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 ...

Arson • Forensic examination of fires & explosions • Accident investigation • Road traffic investigation • Materials failures • Chemical engineering • Water leaks • Soil, geological & other environmental evidence • Rail accidents • Electrical equipment & related failure • Personal injury • Contamination • Mechanical equipment & related failure • Paint & substance spills

Glass analysis • Paint analysis • Fibre analysis • Shoemark & toolmark comparisons • Forensic evidence, general • Analytical chemistry • Workplace drugs testing • Drink drive calculations • Drug analysis & packaging • MDT analysis • Drug driving

Fire investigation • Fire & explosion scene examination, determining origin & cause, laboratory testing & analysis, assessment of documentary & photographic evidence, interpretation of thermal injury/damage distribution • Physical evidence: • Shoemarks (including feet in shoes examinations) • Toolmarks • Manufacturing detail • Physical fits • Forensic chemistry: • Glass • Paint • Building materials • Alcohol analysis (including technical defence cases) • Noxious liquids • Drugs (including packaging) • Tyremarks

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 ...

Arson • Fires • Fire investigation • Gas explosion investigation • Fire-related matters • Fire risks & prevention • Industrial accidents, fire-related • Explosions • Explosion investigation • Fires in domestic appliances • Investigation of water escapes ...

I am a Partner and Senior Forensic Scientist with Forensic Assessment, and have been a full time practising Forensic Scientist for over 30 years, dealing primarily with various aspects of the scientific investigation of crime. Over the past 17 years I have been acting almost exclusively on behalf of Criminal Defence Solicitors in criminal proceedings that involve certain aspects of forensic science. Such involvement includes the examination of exhibits and scientific case ...

Fingerprint Expert with more than 21 years' experience, having conducted thousands of fingerprint comparisons and examined crime scene and fingerprint evidence in numerous cases, with offences ranging from burglary, fraud and theft to arson, rape, terrorism and murder. Has also attended Crown Courts, Magistrates' Courts and Youth Courts to give expert advice and testimony on many occasions. Work includes: ...

Arson • Forensic examination of fires & explosions • Accident investigation • Road traffic investigation • Materials failures • Chemical engineering • Water leaks • Soil, geological & other environmental evidence • Rail accidents • Electrical equipment & related failure • Personal injury • Contamination • Mechanical equipment & related failure • Paint & substance spills

Arson • Forensic examination of fires & explosions • Accident investigation • Road traffic investigation • Materials failures • Chemical engineering • Water leaks • Soil, geological & other environmental evidence • Rail accidents • Electrical equipment & related failure • Personal injury • Contamination • Mechanical equipment & related failure • Paint & substance spills

Arson • Forensic examination of fires & explosions • Accident investigation • Road traffic investigation • Materials failures • Chemical engineering • Water leaks • Soil, geological & other environmental evidence • Rail accidents • Electrical equipment & related failure • Personal injury • Contamination • Mechanical equipment & related failure • Paint & substance spills

Arson • Forensic examination of fires & explosions • Accident investigation • Road traffic investigation • Materials failures • Chemical engineering • Water leaks • Soil, geological & other environmental evidence • Rail accidents • Electrical equipment & related failure • Personal injury • Contamination • Mechanical equipment & related failure • Paint & substance spills

Arson • Forensic examination of fires & explosions • Accident investigation • Road traffic investigation • Materials failures • Chemical engineering • Water leaks • Soil, geological & other environmental evidence • Rail accidents • Electrical equipment & related failure • Personal injury • Contamination • Mechanical equipment & related failure • Paint & substance spills

Arson • Forensic examination of fires & explosions • Accident investigation • Road traffic investigation • Materials failures • Chemical engineering • Water leaks • Soil, geological & other environmental evidence • Rail accidents • Electrical equipment & related failure • Personal injury • Contamination • Mechanical equipment & related failure • Paint & substance spills

Arson • Forensic examination of fires & explosions • Accident investigation • Road traffic investigation • Materials failures • Chemical engineering • Water leaks • Soil, geological & other environmental evidence • Rail accidents • Electrical equipment & related failure • Personal injury • Contamination • Mechanical equipment & related failure • Paint & substance spills

Arson/fire raising: forensic examination, investigation & prevention • Explosions: forensic examination, LPG, fires • Fires: agricultural, crop, Calor gas, chemical, consumer product, domestic, domestic appliance, dust, electrical, factory, camping, hydrocarbon, motor vehicle, gas • Fire safety: bedding, bedroom furniture, curtains • Fire damage: buildings, carpets, machinery, tree • Fire doors • Emergency planning: fires • Fire brigade: professional negligence, breathing apparatus, rescue procedures, ...

Chemical engineering investigations • Contamination assessment • Electrical Failure investigations • Fires & explosions • Forensic evidence • Marine cargo loss • Marine fire investigations • Materials failures • Mechanical failure investigations • Personal injury • Road traffic accident investigations • Traffic collision • Water leaks • Marine engineering investigations • Metallurgical investigations • Marine firefighting equipment failure investigations

Chemical engineering investigations • Contamination assessment • Electrical Failure investigations • Fires & explosions • Forensic evidence • Marine cargo loss • Marine fire investigations • Materials failures • Mechanical failure investigations • Personal injury • Road traffic accident investigations • Traffic collision • Water leaks • Marine engineering investigations • Metallurgical investigations • Marine firefighting equipment failure investigations

Chemical engineering investigations • Contamination assessment • Electrical Failure investigations • Fires & explosions • Forensic evidence • Marine cargo loss • Marine fire investigations • Materials failures • Mechanical failure investigations • Personal injury • Road traffic accident investigations • Traffic collision • Water leaks • Marine engineering investigations • Metallurgical investigations • Marine firefighting equipment failure investigations

Chemical engineering investigations • Contamination assessment • Electrical Failure investigations • Fires & explosions • Forensic evidence • Marine cargo loss • Marine fire investigations • Materials failures • Mechanical failure investigations • Personal injury • Road traffic accident investigations • Traffic collision • Water leaks • Marine engineering investigations • Metallurgical investigations • Marine firefighting equipment failure investigations

Chemical engineering investigations • Contamination assessment • Electrical Failure investigations • Fires & explosions • Forensic evidence • Marine cargo loss • Marine fire investigations • Materials failures • Mechanical failure investigations • Personal injury • Road traffic accident investigations • Traffic collision • Water leaks • Marine engineering investigations • Metallurgical investigations • Marine firefighting equipment failure investigations

Chemical engineering investigations • Contamination assessment • Electrical Failure investigations • Fires & explosions • Forensic evidence • Marine cargo loss • Marine fire investigations • Materials failures • Mechanical failure investigations • Personal injury • Road traffic accident investigations • Traffic collision • Water leaks • Marine engineering investigations • Metallurgical investigations • Marine firefighting equipment failure investigations

Chemical engineering investigations • Contamination assessment • Electrical Failure investigations • Fires & explosions • Forensic evidence • Marine cargo loss • Marine fire investigations • Materials failures • Mechanical failure investigations • Personal injury • Road traffic accident investigations • Traffic collision • Water leaks • Marine engineering investigations • Metallurgical investigations • Marine firefighting equipment failure investigations

Architect • 30 years' experience in private & public architectural practice • Partner in commercial practice • Broad spectrum of building types: leisure arena, sport stadium, assembly, residential, technical, commercial, industrial & transportation • Design, information production & construction of building projects • Television & radio transmitting stations, UK & overseas • Exhibition centre • Offices • Hotels • Stations • Airports • Museums • Housing • Swimming pools • Risk assessment • Health & safety audit • ...

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

Foremost Expert Witness security consultancy (1976-to date), extensive expert witness experience in hundreds of cases • Full spectrum of practical security knowledge, including electronic, physical, access, CCTV, perimeter, communications, signalling & central stations, guarding, contingency plans, personal injury & traumatic stress, product or system dissatisfaction, security in arson, goods in transit, patents, loss investigation • In-depth knowledge of approval bodies, British Standards, security ...

Experienced independent expert witness & SJE for leading loss adjusters, assessors, solicitors & courts • Burglary, fire & intruder alarm detector & control panel functions & failures, alarm receiving centre (ARC) operations, protocol & ARC alarm log analysis • Commercial & loss issues, reconstructions, best practice, fit for purpose • Detailed knowledge of NACOSS/NSI/SSAIB regulations, British & European standards, ACPO (police) regulations, installer responsibilities & actions, etc. • Court procedure, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Homicide • Violent crime • Sex offences • Arson • Shoplifting • Other criminal work • Civil work • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Personal injury • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Court martial • Assessment of all forms of mental disorder, e.g. schizophrenia, depression, amnesia, psychopathic disorder

Children: with child abuse problems, minimum & maximum brain damage, delinquent or criminal activities, psychological aspects, failure to receive education according to their special needs • Adults: with emotional & behavioural problems, serious crimes wherein there is a psychological factor explaining the behaviour, crimes committed as a result of subnormality or moral imbecility • Client accused of rape, homicide, substance abuse • Alcoholism • Dyslexia • Kleptomania • Arson • Post-traumatic stress ...

Works as Consultant Psychiatrist with Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Trust • Providing reports for over 20 years

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

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) ...

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 ...

I have been preparing & have extensive experience in preparing medico-legal reports for the CPS, solicitors, the probation service & tribunals. My areas of expertise include: • Criminal cases (murder, manslaughter, GBH, arson, sexual offending, theft, shoplifting, burglary, drug possession, harassment, criminal damage, ABH, assault) • Assessment of risk & dangerousness • Diagnosis clarification • Fitness to plead • PTSD • Trauma sequelae • Addiction & compulsions • Trauma assessment • Accident victims • Criminal ...

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 & ...

Psychological assessment of a wide range of criminal offences • Expertise & international publications in the fields of murder, sexual & violent offences, arson, police interrogations & interrogative suggestibility, malingering of mental illness, learning disabilities & crime • Specialist skills & experience in cases of female violence, infanticide & cruelty to children, child protection matters • Neuropsychological assessments of head injury • Mental disorder & criminal responsibility • Post-traumatic stress ...

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 & ...

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 ...

Preparation of psychological assessments for use in asylum & appeal claims • Assessment of learning disability (mental handicap) & cognitive incapacity in civil employment & criminal cases • Assessment of suggestibility & compliance in criminal cases • Assessment of post-traumatic stress, depression & general psychological health issues in civil employment & compensation claims • Assessment of psychological motives for arson fire-setting • Assessment of false confessions • Clinical service development & ...

Clinical psychology • Personal injury • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Assessment of psychological disorders • Assessment of levels of pain • Assessment of intellectual function • Suggestibility • Neuropsychological assessment • Assessment of personality disorders

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 • ...

Investigating into & reporting on quantum of loss: Inter alia • Breach of contract • Consequential loss • Share valuations • Professional negligence • Acquisition & merger disputes • Intellectual property disputes • Breach of warranty • Fraud • Arson • Partnership disputes • Personal injury • Medical negligence • Employment disagreements • Matrimonial disputes & libel • Also reporting on professional negligence & directors' disqualifications, tracing complex financial transactions • Advice on pre-trial strategies, compulsory ...