Disability assessment

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

Mrs Pocknell in ASHFORD
Nurse expert witness providing care needs reports with reference to multiple trauma, catastrophic injury & acquired brain injury • Cost of injury, disability or death • Care needs quantification • Medical & nursing care, aids & equipment requirements • Rehabilitation assessment • Functional ability & life skills assessment • Professional & clinical advice to solicitors & insurers regarding nursing care & treatment • Breach of nursing care causation, liability, condition & prognosis reports undertaken
Mr Bates in LONDON
I am an orthopaedic trauma surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, specialising in injuries to the limbs and pelvis. I treat injuries to both upper and lower limbs and I specialise in treating fractures of the pelvis and acetabulum. I am also an expert in amputations and osseointegration for amputees with short stumps and socket problems. I am therefore happy to accept instructions on: • Orthopaedic injuries to upper or lower limbs • Fractures of acetabulum or pelvis • Multiple injuries involving several parts of the body • Orthopaedic treatment of injuries to the limbs o...
Mr Al-Mahfoudh in HURSTPIERPOINT
I have conducted reports based on the AMA guidelines for both personal injuries and medical malpractice. Starting as a medico-legal expert with an independent medical assessments agency (Red Health) in Brisbane, Australia since November 2013, these included assessing and calculating the resulting disability/impairment according to the AMA guidelines. I completed the AMA Guide's 5th Edition Training Course in Brisbane in June 2014. I completed the Bond Solon/Cardiff University Civil Expert Witness Certificate in 2023. I have successfully completed numerous personal injury and me...
Ms Wybraniec in LONDON
Anna Wybraniec is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years' professional experience in clinical psychology working in the NHS and in private practice in London. She has been involved in preparing medico-legal reports for courts since 2000. She specialises in psychological assessment of personal and criminal injuries following traumatic events, such as: • RTA • Work and industrial accidents • Animal attacks • Physical and sexual assaults • Violence • Emotional and physical abuse • Robberies • Harassment • Medical ne...
Mr Forrester in BY LAURENCEKIRK
My special interests are in forensic issues and diagnosis in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including Asperger's syndrome. Working with people affected by ASD since 1991, working closely with forensic and other psychiatric services, social workers, solicitors and the court service since at least 2000. I receive referrals for assessment from various departments, typically considering diagnostic issues, risk, potential involvement of symptoms in criminal behaviour, and recommendation of supports to reduce recidivism....
Mr Johnson in LONDON
Musculoskeletal physiotherapy : spinal conditions, sports injuries, post-operative rehabilitation, chronic pain, occupational injuries, whiplash, gait analysis, functional movement assessment, biomechanics, prognostication, treatment outcome evaluation.
Dr Fellerman in LEEDS
Expert in medico-legal reporting, with particular interest in whiplash injuries, sports injuries & general disabilities • Clinical negligence
Mrs Bush in CRIEFF
Analytical and detail-orientated with extensive experience in health, social care and social work sectors • Skilled in providing expert witness reports on medical negligence, personal injury, breach of duty, vulnerable adults and complex independent social work for various client groups • Offering guidance on care cost assessments, personal injury claims and long-term care planning • Adept at delivering accurate, objective and professional reports while navigating complex care needs whilst having the knowledge and understanding of local authorities, NHS, charitable, private a...
Dr Horsford in LONDON
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 •...
Mrs Aykroyd in OTLEY
Spinal cord injury • Rehabilitation • Disability
Dr Drayton in LONDON
Opus Performance Medico-legal London and Birmingham | Online assessments My expert witness reports provide clear well-reasoned opinions to answer your questions. My diagnoses are based on established DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and are written in plain English. Reports are filed within 2 weeks of assessment. My 30 years of experience enables me to unravel complex trauma cases and provide psychological evidence that will assist the court and help you to present your case in the best possible way. I specialise in complex cases, including multiple physical and psychological...
Dr Siddaway in SHEFFIELD
• Trauma, stress and medical psychology (including chronic pain) • Chair, British Psychological Society Expert Witness Advisory Group • Regularly instructed in complex and high-value claims; accepts instructions for personal injury, clinical negligence, immigration and employment cases • Approximately 100 expert reports per year (55% claimant, 40% defendant, 5% joint) • Assessment of children, adolescents and adults • CPR-compliant, meticulous, evidence-based assessments • Nationwide and remote assessments (Northern England, Lon...
Dr Iqbal in CAMBRIDGE
Medico-legal assessment and reporting of whiplash-associated disorders and minor personal injury arising from road traffic accidents • Clinical expertise in emergency and acute medicine, including trauma assessment, musculoskeletal and soft-tissue injuries, and acute pain presentations • Experienced in causation, prognosis and functional impact analysis for medico-legal reports
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 • ...
Mr Kat in NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Psychological reports in civil, family & criminal cases • Psychometric tests • Psychological assessments & therapies in relation to trauma, emotional & mental health problems • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
Dr Green in CHIGWELL
Dr Alice Green has extensive experience of working in crisis and acute adult mental health within the NHS, as well as running an independent practice, providing expert witness services and specialist psychological consultation and therapy. Medico-legal work includes psychological assessments and expert witness psychology reports, specialising in the field of personal injury and clinical negligence, including psychometric testing. Expert witness training was undertaken at the British Psychological Society. Dr Green is a guest lecturer at UCL and Roehampton Universities on the Clinical/C...
Mr Humberstone in TODMORDEN
Specialist assessment & CPR 35 compliant reports (CUBS accredited since 2012) for assistive technology • Bespoke IT solutions (e.g. switch, voice or eye gaze control) • Assistive technology from cause & effect to full home environmental control & multimedia distribution systems • AAC (communication aids) • Equipment training & rehabilitation with extensive experience of using technology as a communication therapist • Specialist areas: brain & spinal injury • Fully independent with no commercial interests • Project manageme...
Dr Blandford in CLACTON-ON-SEA
Adult psychological assessment for civil & criminal court proceedings: • Cognitive & intellectual functioning (e.g. IQ) • Daily adaptive/social functioning • Capacity & fitness to plead • Executive functioning (e.g. adaptive behaviour, abstract thinking, mental flexibility, problem solving, planning, inhibition & social behaviour) • Malingering • Memory • Suggestibility & compliance • Personality disorders & clinical syndromes • Dementing processes • Affective conditions (e.g. anxiety disorders, depression, PTS
Dr Shadi in NORWICH
Dr Shadi is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) with extensive experience in psychological assessment and medico-legal reporting. She specialises in trauma, mental health (including depression, anxiety and PTSD), and neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and ADHD in both children and adults. She works with children, adolescents and young people, and undertakes psychological assessments across all age groups, including psychological screening assessments. Dr Shadi also has experience working with ne...
Mr Carter in LONDON
Career structure assessment • Earning assessment • Employment practice • Job market analysis • Rehabilitation assessments • The provision of career profiles to be used in cases of personal injury by claimant and defendants • Analysis of earnings by different occupational areas and by geographical region, including the evaluation of career options and level of earnings in Europe, America, South America, Australia and South Africa • Individual careers counselling both for those who have suffered physical and psychological injury and for t...
Dr Ross in TROWBRIDGE
Independent expert evidence on dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia and SEND • Specialist assessment and psychometric evidence • Access arrangements and reasonable adjustments • EHCP provision • Disability discrimination • Literacy, numeracy and neurodiversity • Educational inclusion • The adequacy and appropriateness of educational support • The impact of SEND on attainment, progression, employment and daily life Experience includes evidence prepared for legal proceedings, including the High Court.
Dr Laher in LEICESTER
• Consultant Chartered Clinical and Health Psychologist (BPS) • Registered Practitioner Psychologist (HCPC) • Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (BABCP) I have been qualified for 31 years largely working in NHS adult services within the specialities of mental health, health psychology and physical rehabilitation/pain management - taking a lead role in service development and innovation. I currently work in private practice and I am the Managing Director of an independent psychological consultancy, PsyWorks Ltd. I specialise in the area o...
Dr Williams in DOVER
Occupational medicine • Fitness for work • Occupational pensions • Ill health retirement • Disability assessment • Disability discrimination • Working with CFS/ME • Working with fibromyalgia & chronic widespread pain • Working with back pain • Working with chronic pain • Working with complex regional pain syndrome
Mrs Halsall in WIGAN
I am an Employment Expert and Functional Evaluator. I prepare evidence-based vocational reports for litigation and rehabilitation. Since 2016, I have been writing expert employment and earnings reports for the court for personal injury, medical negligence and family law cases. I provide reports for the court, commenting on a claimant’s capacity for work and their career and earnings trajectory both for the index event and now. I use a functional approach to comment on a claimant’s capacity for work and their earnings potential. Matching the claimant’s functional abilities and limitatio...
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....
Employment Experts Ltd in GLASGOW
Key expertise and experience in: • Loss of earnings • Employment matters • Return to work after injury and related wage loss estimates • Particular expertise in return to work after acquired disability and brain injury • Vocational rehabilitation • Functional capacity assessment Can also provide: • Occupational and aptitude assessment • Vocational case management • Wage loss • Counselling
Mr Jackson in BARNSLEY
Personal injury, including: • Brain & spinal injuries & birth defects • Employment prospects • Loss of earnings • Loss of opportunity • Labour market analysis • Research service • Employment case management • Vocational rehabilitation • Occupational psychology • Psychometric & occupational testing • Careers advice • Employment practice • Employee retention • Discrimination in employment • Claimant, defendant & single joint instructions undertaken • UK-wide service • Job analysi
Mrs Sargent in SHIPSTON-ON-STOUR
I have provided over 3000 expert reports on the costs of providing care in personal injury and clinical negligence cases. I have over 100 associate experts in my team who prepare expert reports on care, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, occupational health and liability nursing care reports.
Dr Lucas in STANMORE
Expert in the field of chronic pain management • Assessment of the impact & consequences of chronic pain • Psychological assessment & treatment of chronic pain patients
Dr Knowles in RHUDDLAN
Criminal law • Neurodiversity diagnosis and how this impacts offending behaviour. • Personality assessments. • Psychometric assessments only with an emphasis of a full battery of testing to answer the letter of instruction. • Risk evaluation for sex offenders - the expert has completed over 900 sex offender risk evaluations using static tools and other relevant testing protocols. • The expert has spent 10 years working within the prison system to establish a full forensic background. • Tests of deception and malingering are alway...
Ms Cawdry in HALIFAX
I undertake quantum care & occupational therapy reports on a wide range of injury types including, but not exclusively: • Amputation • Cauda equina • Chronic pain • Upper limb injury • Incontinence • Injuries from general medical/surgical conditions • Oncology • Orthopaedic conditions • Spinal injury • Strokes • Visual impairment • Sensory loss • Stoma care. I am happy to undertake initial telephone discussions with solicitors to identify if my clinical experience meets their client's needs.
Dr Clarke in LONDON
Also consulting at: 88 Rodney Street, LIVERPOOL, L1 9AR Neurology, general • Head injury • Traumatic brain injury • High altitude and mountain medicine • Cold injury • Medical negligence: neurology • Genuineness of complaints • Health fraud
Ms Smales in LONDON
• Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil and Criminal Expert Witness Certificate qualification (February 2025) 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, inclu...
Dr Nabavi in BIRMINGHAM
• Section 12(2) Approved • Medical Director - The Priory Hospital Barnt Green • Medical Director - The Birmingham Neuromodulation Clinic • Honorary Senior Lecturer at Aston Medical School Psychiatric disorders • Negligence • Personal injury • Adult ADHD • PTSD • Complex PTSD • Trauma sequelae (personal injury) • Personality disorder • Fitness to plead/stand trial and disposal • Offender psychiatric assessment • Capacity assessment • Disability assessment • Hi
Mrs Hardwick in NOTTINGHAM
We have a team of 12 experts who prepare care and occupational therapy–quantum reports for: • Children and adults • Physical disabilities • Acquired brain injury • Spinal cord injuries • Cerebral palsy • Traumatic injuries • Autism and challenging behaviour
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...
Professor Kulkarni in MACCLESFIELD
Retired Clinical Director in Specialised Ability Centre - University Hospitals of Manchester (NHS FT) • NHS consultant - UHM NHS FT - since 1991 to 2020 in rehabilitation medicine • NW Deanery: Chair of Specialist Training CTTE • Specialist areas: amputee medicine, trauma rehabilitation - major cases only • Received the 'Lifetime membership award' from the British Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in November 2024 at the Annual Scientific Conference • Medico-legal expert work, specialising in cases of limb loss/amputation for over 25 years...
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 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.
Mrs Barnes in LEICESTER
Industrial respiratory disease (mesothelioma, asbestos-related illness and silicosis) • Cancer, oncology, chemo/immuno and radio therapy treatments • Traumatic brain injury • Spinal cord injury • Cauda equina • Polytrauma • Amputation • Palliative care and end-of-life care • Long-term conditions and chronic illness (multi organ failure, lung disease, dementia, diabetes, asthma, coronary care, renal disease/dialysis and COPD) • Life-limiting illness • Ostomies • Mesh surgery injury • Neurological conditions • Psycholo...
Dr Loumidis in SHIFNAL
Expert since 1996 • Personal injury • Employment law • Clinical negligence • Professional conduct & competence hearings • Psychological assessment & diagnosis of mental disorders using DSM-5-TR and ICD-11 criteria • Offers evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy following trauma Consulting in Birmingham, London, Leicester, Manchester, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton & Worcester, plus remote consultations UK-wide
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 Comp...
Dr Drayton in BIRMINGHAM
Opus Performance Medico-legal London and Birmingham | Online assessments My expert witness reports provide clear well-reasoned opinions to answer your questions. My diagnoses are based on established DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and are written in plain English. Reports are filed within 2 weeks of assessment. My 30 years of experience enables me to unravel complex trauma cases and provide psychological evidence that will assist the court and help you to present your case in the best possible way. I specialise in complex cases, including multiple physical and psychological...
Mr Collis in BINGLEY
SEND mediation • SEND Statutory Framework • SEND law
Cleaver in STOWMARKET
Statutory Special Educational Needs & Disabilities mediation & ADR • Statutory Special Educational Needs & Disabilities judicial ADR • Statutory Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Tribunal Appeals (SEND Chamber) • Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Statutory Framework & legislation • Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Mental Capacity Assessments • Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Youth Offending Team • Statutory Education, Health & Care Plan analysis & composition • Accredited CMC Traini...
Mrs Jennings in LEEDS
Julie Jennings heads a team of experienced and specialist occupational therapists. Fully costed reports are produced for all age groups and conditions, e.g. amputations, brain injury, brachial plexus lesions, cerebral palsy, hand injuries, industrial diseases, neurological damage, musculoskeletal injuries, paediatrics, psychiatry, spinal cord injury, medical negligence and disputes. Reports consider (with costs): • Ability/disability • Aids & equipment • Housing • Transport • Rehabilitation • Care & total permanent disability claims We are in...
Mr Groux in CROYDON
Assessing accommodation needs at home & in the workplace for severely injured or physically/mentally disabled people • Formulating reports on suitability of properties to accommodate disabled persons in terms of mobility requirements, access & special needs • Designing suitable accommodation for disabled users based on expertise developed over 40+ years specialising in designing for the disabled • Assessing & commenting on third party reports by other expert witnesses • Advises plaintiffs & defendants in personal injury cases • Undertakes role...
Ms Wilkinson in CHESTERFIELD
Areas of speciality are neurological & musculoskeletal (orthopaedic) rehabilitation of both adults & children • Injuries include spinal & head injuries • Cerebral palsy • Orthopaedic conditions • Quantum & negligence reports to include care requirements, physiotherapy provision, aids, appliance & equipment needs, rehabilitation cost reports, hydrotherapy reports & negligence reports
Dr Phelps in AYLESBURY
Orthogeriatrics • Peri-operative complications/death • Dementia • Frailty • Osteoporosis • Medical negligence • Decisions on escalation/resuscitation • Ethical decisions on elderly patients • Inappropriate testing/medicalisation • Breaches in communication • Fitness to stand trial for older patients • Safeguarding situations • Coroner cases • Case reviews involving older, frail patients
Dr Solomon in MANCHESTER
Dr Solomon 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: • Clinical psychology • Counselling • Facial deformity • Mental capacity • Mental health • Mood disorders • Personality disorders • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Stress • Trauma

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