Child development

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

Ms Hopkins in RICKMANSWORTH
Dietary recommendations • Faltering growth - paediatrics • Enteral feeding - adult and paediatrics • Nutritional requirements - paediatrics • Diet and obesity • Nutritional assessment • Feeding problems • Obesity in children • Dysphagia problems • Dietary assessment • Dysphagia problems - children • Feeding problems - cerebral palsy • Poor growth - children
Dr King in HARTLEY
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 in the context of criminal, family and private law disputes. This includes: • Capacity to conduct proceedings • Analysis of an Achieving Best Evidence Interview • Assessment of attachment in a family (parental & sibl...
Dr Valinejad in DARTFORD
I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has previously worked for the NHS for 25 years and has established my own psychological service since 2014. My specialist area is psychological trauma. I run a busy expert witness and psychological therapy practice. In addition, I provide specialist assessments, namely neuropsychological assessments for individuals who have suffered brain injury and any other type of neuropathology. I have been instructed in civil, family and criminal proceedings. I am a Member of the British Psychological Society and hold the status of Associate Fellow....
Dr Palmer in NORWICH
I am an experienced expert witness, undertaking approximately 90 cases per year, primarily for children and young adults (birth to 25), and for adults where the index incident occurred in childhood. Testimony has involved matters of family dispute, Education Act, personal injury, clinical negligence, special educational needs and for the HCPC Tribunal Service. My particular areas of expertise include premature and low weight birth, infant or parental disability or death caused by clinical negligence, autism and complex neurodiversity, school non-attendance, trauma, bereavement, attachment and ...
Dr Wiener in WATFORD
Child psychiatry • Adolescent psychiatry All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .
Dr Ogbureke in DARTFORD
I have been practising paediatrics for over 25 years (21 years as a consultant). I am vastly experienced in the management of complex medical and social paediatric problems. I currently work as a Consultant Paediatrician in an NHS hospital. I am interested in providing expertise in the following areas: general paediatrics, safeguarding/child protection, cerebral palsy, neonatal intensive care, inpatient care, paediatric emergency care, care of the newborn infant and child development.
Dr Mittal in MANCHESTER
Dr Mittal has an extensive paediatric background, with experience in matters such as child protection, including neglect, fabricated and induced illness (FII), child deaths, behavioural paediatrics, and child development and disability.
Dr Birch in email/phone contact only
A Paediatrician and Psychotherapist experienced in working with young people and families, particularly with respect to child neglect and protection, family disturbance, substance abuse and domestic violence. A leading authority on adolescence and teen pregnancy and have worked with psychopathic personalities, disorders such as borderline personalities, learning disabilities and with children in situations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, as well as factitious illness (Munchausen)-type syndromes. Also worked with refugees and asylum-seeking youth. I am regularly used by the cou...
Dr Liberman in BRISTOL
I am competent to accept instructions in all aspects of general practice. I have particular interest in women's health, child health, cancer diagnosis, mental health, care of the elderly and prescribing.
Dr Pahuja in HAMPTON
Special interest in: • Respiratory and chronic lung diseases of newborns • Feeding and nutrition • Immunisation • Growth and developmental assessment • Gastrointestinal problems All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .
Dr Moore in LEICESTER
An experienced educational psychologist with considerable and successful experience at carrying out a range of assessments to detect specific learning difficulties, including the effects of brain injury on a child's ability to learn. Qualified to conduct a range of psychometric tests with children and young people between the ages of 6 and 16. Able to assess a child's learning potential as well as those forms of teaching which will best help a child to learn.
Dr Nair in MANCHESTER
Dr Nair accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Asthma • Cardiology • Child development • Child's health • ECMO - Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation • Haemangiomas • Health screening • Intensive care • Oncology • Paediatric cardiology • Paediatric oncology
Dr Corr in TELFORD
Family Law cases Extensive experience providing assessments of psychological presentation and need • Relationships and attachment between siblings, and between children and their carers • Assessment or mental health and clinical conditions • Provision of full psychological assessment reports, including advice and opinion regarding future support, care provision and prognostics Clinical Negligence cases (particularly brachial plexus injury/Erb's palsy) Extensive experience providing claimant assessments of presentation • ...
Dr Habibi in LONDON
Paediatric intensive care • Emergency medicine • Infectious diseases • Meningococcal disease • Meningitis & septicaemia • Respiratory diseases • Ethical issues • General paediatrics • Life expectancy • Sleep medicine
Miss Blakey in MANCHESTER
Miss Blakey’s consultant practice comprises general paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, but she predominantly sees paediatric and adolescent hip disorders. Miss Blakey has an adult practice at the Doncaster Royal Infirmary where she manages patients appropriate for hip preservation surgery.
Dr Thorley in LEICESTER
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 • Domiciliary visits also possible nationwide
Mrs Birnbaum in LONDON
Assessment of children & young people (3-25 years) with learning, emotional & behavioural difficulties • Preparation of detailed reports for family courts & appeals against Local Education Authority Education Act decisions • Submission of oral evidence • High court & tribunal experience • Experience as a single joint expert
Ms Kirk in ELY
Paediatric speech & language therapy • Development delay • Speech & language disorders • Autism spectrum disorder • Cerebral palsy • Down syndrome
Mrs Humphreys in ANTRIM
Speech, language and communication disorders • Swallowing disorders, eating and drinking, dysphagia management • Children with speech and language delay/disorder • Cerebral palsy • Head injury • Acquired brain injury • Neurological conditions • Stroke/CVA • Voice disorders • Dysfluency/stammering • Young age • Dementia • Head and neck cancers • Brain tumours • Road traffic accidents and personal injuries • Autism, Aspergers, ASD • Learning disabilities and difficulties • Low IQ • Mental ...
Mr Dwarampudi in MANCHESTER
Mr Dwarampudi accepts instructions from both claimant and defendant law firms in clinical negligence and personal injury cases, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Double vision • Eye conditions • Ophthalmology • Optic nerve conditions • Paediatric ocular inflammation • Paediatric ophthalmology • Visual field defects
Dr Pradhan in BIRMINGHAM
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 • D...
Ms Jackson in LONDON
Adult cognitive and personality assessment, including own family history in relation to ability to parent • Cognitive assessment of adults to determine competence, identify learning difficulties and disabilities, and make recommendations • Educational and emotional or behavioural assessment of adults and children, including abused, neglected and at risk children • Assessment of attachment and bonding in families • Assessment of parenting, including in the context of child care proceedings • Alcohol and drug abuse as pertaining to parenting ability • Domestic...
Mrs Martin-Alam in RICHMOND
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
Dr Maduemem in BELFAST
General paediatrics • Paediatric emergency medicine • Child safeguarding • Inclusion health • Migrant health Expert witness in the UK and Ireland. All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .
Dr Spoto in LONDON
Mental illness • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Family law • Testamentary capacity • Court of Protection • Forensic psychiatry • Mental Health Act • Psychotherapy • Road traffic accidents • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Immigration • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • Employment law • Member of Council of the Medicolegal Society • Member of the Independent Doctor Federation sitting on the Education Committee
Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd in SOUTHMINSTER
FHC Experts for Law & Mediation is one of the leading providers of expert witnesses, giving opinions in forensic and legal matters, both in the UK and internationally. Since 1999 we have been providing a custom range of forensic expert witness services within the judicial system for all criminal and civil practice, including the police, family courts, defence solicitors and barristers, inquests and medical negligence to name but a few. We have one of the largest expert witness panels comprising of, but not limited to, medical, paediatric, psychological, psychiatric, technic...
Dr Hurley in LONDON
Personal injury assessment • Urgent and acute care medicine • General practice diagnosis and management • Minor trauma and soft tissue injury • Child health and women’s health • Clinical governance and complaint review All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW.
Professor Stein in LONDON
Also consulting at 14 The Tything, Worcester, WR1 1HD. Medico-legal report writing (family, civil, crime) • Divorce & separation • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Medical negligence • 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 •...
Dr Edward in EDINBURGH
I am a practising Chartered Clinical Psychologist offering expert witness and medical legal (personal injury) assessments to children, adolescents and families. I have expert witness experience in cases concerning child development, custody, contact, abuse (including sexual abuse), trauma (including RTA), fostering and adoption. Cases involving adults relating to specific issues of trauma or sexual violence may also be considered.
Dr Alu in CROYDON
Developmental paediatrics • All aspects of safeguarding children and child protection, including physical abuse, child sexual abuse, neglect, fabricated and induced illness and perplexing presentations.
Dr Kapoor in SHEFFIELD
Diagnosing and treating paediatric gastrointestinal disorders • Conducting endoscopic procedures in children • Managing nutritional issues in paediatric patients • Providing consultation on digestive health • Developing treatment plans for paediatric digestive conditions All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .
Dr Suri in ROTHERHAM
Dr Sanjay Suri has a total of 35 years’ experience with expertise in neuro-disability. His neuro-disability expertise includes cerebral palsy, spina bifida, genetic syndromes, sensory deficits, global developmental delay and autism. He has 20 years' experience in medico-legal work and attended the Bond Solon expert witness report writing course in 2022. He has also participated in a mini-pupillage and courtroom skills course in the past. He has provided reports for safeguarding cases, coroners inquests and police statements. He is able to report on condition and prognosis, personal i...
Professor Ng OBE in ORMSKIRK
I hold dual accreditation as Consultant Paediatrician and Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist. I have a Master of Laws degree from the University of Liverpool. I have undergone medico-legal expert training courses and attended court with expertise in general paediatric and paediatric endocrinology cases (25% claimant, 25% defendant, 50% joint). I have provided 100+ medico-legal reports in all aspects of paediatric endocrinology and diabetes, child protection, road traffic accident and clinical negligence. I have 150+ publications and presented at 200+ national/international conferences....
Dr Sharma in MANCHESTER
Main clinical interests lie within general practice and women’s and sexual health medicine.
Dr Adeyemi in TADWORTH
Provides an expert witness service • Reparation of medico-legal expert reports for safeguarding children and child abuse (physical abuse, neglect, perplexing presentations, fabricated and induced illness) • Meeting of experts and giving evidence in court Dr Adeyemi has over 30 years' paediatric experience, the last 24 years being specifically in community paediatrics and safeguarding children; the last 7 years have included medico-legal work.
Dr McCarthy in BRISTOL
I provide clinical psychology expert witness reports for court in the areas of personal injury and medical negligence involving children and adolescents. The reports assess the impact of traumatic events on the psychological functioning of children, the nature of the injury suffered and give recommendations for treatment. I provide clinical psychology expert witness reports for court proceedings involving public and private legal cases involving the care and upbringing of children and adolescents.
Dr Kopuri in LONDON
Neonatal intensive care • Neonatology • Neonatal medicine • Paediatrics • Interested in clinical neonatology, neonatal nutrition, body composition of infants, neonatal non-invasive ventilation All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .

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