Asylum

This list shows every expert witness in the UK Register of Expert Witnesses who claims expertise in Asylum. Click on any expert witness to view full details. You may prefer to interactively search the Register.

Dr Stanbury in YEOVIL
Asylum claims What risks does an individual or group claiming asylum face in their country of origin? Includes assessment of protected characteristics such as race, ethnicity and religion. Proceeds of Crime Where assets are held in problematic locations overseas, what challenges exist in recovering those assets, and how might these be overcome? Human rights Including human trafficking and modern slavery, child labour, slave labour and bonded labour. Significant experience in Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan...
Dr Pickering in STOCKPORT
I specialise in psychological assessments of adolescents and adults from the age of 14 years and above. I have been carrying out psychological assessments for the civil courts since 2008. My specialist areas of expertise include the assessment of: • General mental health • Trauma, PTSD and complex PTSD • Trauma following childhood abuse • Trauma with individuals seeking asylum • Trauma following injury or clinical negligence • Trauma and impact on mental health following criminal injury • Adult attachment, personality...
Dr Bekalo in LEEDS
I have expertise and first-hand experience of compiling expert witness reports and consultancy services, focusing on the people and countries of East and Horn of Africa (i.e. Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan) for legal firms as well as courts and other clients across the UK/West/Africa in the following areas/fields: • Families and minority refugee community members (e.g. domestic disputes and wider conflicts, exploitations and modern-day slavery, cultural intersections and problems of relationships with partners...
Dr Gould in LONDON
Psychological assessments of: 1. Civil/personal injury such as accidents and medical negligence 2. Employment law, including the Equality Act, racial discrimination, fitness to work and Occupational Mandated Psychological Assessments 3. Immigration and asylum 4. Vulnerable witness and special measures 5. Adult mental health, and especially PTSD Working in particular with: • Media, TV, journalists • Aviation psychology and neuropsychology • Police and emergency services • Military and veterans • Criminal Injuries Compensation...
Dr Mannan in LONDON
Psychiatric reports • Special interest in UK immigration cases • Fluent Arabic & knowledge of Arabic-speaking countries • Ability to consider subject's condition in context of country conditions • Prepared to undertake investigation as to underlying causes of trauma & matters relating to need for report • Assessment of mental capacity • Fitness to plead • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Negligence in mental health • MSc - Masters Degree (Clinical & Public Health Aspects of Addiction), London • LLM - Masters Degree Medical...
Dr Manyame-Tazarurwa in LUTON
Country expert report writing - Zimbabwe and other English-speaking African countries • I use interpreters for non-English-speaking countries • Assessment of mental health needs of asylum seekers and those facing deportation, then counselling them using a holistic approach, including counselling for loss and grief • Writing domestic violence reports • Understanding and treating symptoms of torture and other war traumas through psychotherapy and writing reports • Researching and interviewing in order to use secondary...
Dr Sakhuja in CARDIFF
Medico-legal work 1. Personal injury - all aspects of personal injury 2. Medical negligence 3. Psychiatric consequences of medical negligence 4. Traumatic brain injury 5. Drug & alcohol testing 6. Hair analysis for family courts 7. Chronic pain 8. Psychiatric consequences of abuse 9. Immigration matters 10. Employment tribunals Treatments for addictions & psychiatric illness Tier 1 APIL Expert • CUBS Expert Witness Certificate • Certificate of Medical Reporting - 1
Dr Tunnard in GLASGOW
Emergency medicine (A & E) • Personal injury • Assault • Clinical negligence • Malpractice • Sports injuries • Workplace accidents • Road accidents • Retrieval (transfer) medicine • Critical care transfers • Pre-hospital care (HEMS) • Aeromedical care
Revd Dr Pemberton Ford in ROYSTON
Seasoned and experienced expert providing effective, detailed court-ready reports for criminal, immigration tribunal cases • One-on-one interviews with clients on line preferred, to provide research-based reports, enriched by the client's attested history, alongside the frequently substantial court bundle • Particular expertise in MSA 2015/Section 45 and county lines vulnerabilities • Substantial court experience for cross-examination purposes for jury enlightenment • Reports typically 1 month from inception Work...
Ms Smales in LONDON
Adults • Mental health, including schizophrenia, personality disorder, bipolar, depression, anxiety, dementia and mild to moderate learning disabilities • Forensic mental health and risk • Best Interest decisions • Section 117 aftercare and eligibility criteria • Care Act assessments • Deprivation of liberty safeguards and Best Interest decisions • Mental capacity decisions • Forensic risk analysis, including completion of HCR20s • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Social work holistic needs assessments • Health and Social Care...
Mr Harvey in FERNHURST
Human trafficking • Modern slavery • Smuggling of migrants • Albanian organised crime • Joint investigation teams • EUROPOL • International law enforcement co-operation
Dr Hafidh in LONDON
Country researcher for Middle East and North African countries • Country reports • Document authentication • Disputed nationality • Dialect analysis • Forensic document authentication services (handwriting, tampering, alterations and translation) • Civil society in the Gulf • Islamist movements • Militia groups and radicalisation • Conflict and peacebuilding • Religious and ethnic minorities • Geopolitical trends and regional security • Diaspora and refugees • Human rights issues and modes of governance in the Middle East • LGBTQ and...
Dr Harris in LONDON
Medico-legal reports concerning all aspects of general medical practice • Medical records • Medical ethics • Medical disputes • Personal injury, including road traffic accident & whiplash injuries • Falling, tripping & slipping accidents • Medico-legal aspects of circumcision • Medical competence, accidents & negligence • Prescribing & dispensing errors • Therapeutic misadventure • General medical reports in asylum, refugee & immigration cases • Home & prison visits • Coroner • Death certificates • Inquests • Refugees • Asylum • Immigration...
Dr Zapata in NEWMARKET
Trained in Oxford and London • General Adult Psychiatrist with over 23 years of experience in: PTSD, psychosis, mood and anxiety disorders, Court Diversion, LGBT and transcultural issues and personality disorders • As a medico-legal psychiatrist and expert witness, I have extensive experience in providing opinions to the Home Office, courts and tribunals on patients presenting with complex histories and presentations
Dr Karim in PORTSMOUTH
• Preparation of high-quality medical reports offering a holistic approach to cover all medical, psychological and mental health concerns • Fluent in English, Bengali, Sylheti, Urdu and Hindi languages • Specialist interest in UK immigration cases • Reports for visa application, deportation, asylum seekers, disability, vulnerability and memory issues • Understand cultural and country differences of various regions, including Asia, Africa, Middle East, Eastern European • Effects of removal on subjects to country...
Dr Stein in LONDON
All adult general psychiatry 16-65 age group • Subspecialty: post-partum psychiatric disorders • Bonding difficulties • Adult psychiatric assessments of mothers in care proceedings with social services • Personal injury • Injury, somatization, road traffic accidents, PTSD, psychiatric negligence • Some forensic experience (not homicide) • Asylum seekers • Forensic psychiatry, including prison assessments • Immigration cases • Psychiatric aspects of crime
Dr Patel in THORNTON HEATH
Medico-legal reports concerning all aspects of general medical practice • Medical records • Medical ethics • Medical disputes • Personal injury, including road traffic accident and whiplash injuries • Falling, tripping and slipping accidents • Medico-legal aspects of men's and women's health • Medical competence, accidents and negligence • Prescribing and dispensing errors • Therapeutic misadventure • General medical reports in asylum, refugee and immigration cases • Home and prison visits • Coroner • Death certificates • Inquests • Refugees •...
Dr Hassan Zadeh in GRAVESEND
Cultural expertise on Afghanistan and Pakistan • Forensic verification of questioned documents from Afghanistan and Pakistan • Authentication of documents issued in Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu • Language analysis to determine origin and nationality • Forensic linguistic authentication and authorship analysis • Expertise of human rights, safety, internal relocation, protection matters and access to treatment
Ms Ownhouse in LONDON
Adult personality disorder • Adult mental health • Impact of alcohol and drug misuse • Adult attachment style • Trauma • Adverse childhood experiences • Relationship issues and family dynamics, including impact of domestic violence and/or substance misuse • Psychopathology in adults • Parenting (including therapeutic and support needs of parents, prospect of change and the likely timescale for that change) • Personal injury • Risk of violence • Risk of sexual violence

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