Fields of expertise include: Post-traumatic stress disorder • Personal injury • Psychosis • Addictive behaviour • Criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead • Witness assessment • Mental disorder • Dangerousness • Road traffic offences • Mental Health Act reviews • Regulatory body assessments • Employment and Equality Act • Criminal matters • DVLA • Regularly instructed in civil and criminal cases

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...

HCPC registered • Protected titles: Chartered Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, Occupational Psychologist • 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

Assessment of adolescents & adults: criminal, family & civil proceedings & personal injury cases • Criminal work includes: assessment of intellectual & cognitive functioning, assessment of mental health problems, e.g. depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, phobias • Family court work includes: the assessment of cognitive/intellectual functioning, capacity, psychological functioning, attachment • Personal injury work includes: assessment of the psychological sequelae of traumatic events & occupational stress

The medico-legal aspects of psychiatric disorders in adults, including the psychological consequences of trauma, in particular following road traffic or industrial accidents • Assessment, diagnosis, treatment options, prognosis & aetiology of all psychiatric disorders, including depression, anxiety & post-traumatic stress disorder • Forensic psychiatry, including work-related stress, fitness to plead, sexual offences & psychological consequences of clinical negligence • Parenting assessments

• Consultant in general adult psychiatry since 1990 • Medical Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal • Visiting Psychiatrist to Chelmsford Prison 1992-2004 • Long and varied medico-legal experience Reporting regularly to the courts in civil and criminal proceedings on mental health issues in relation to: • Criminal, family and personal injury matters • Clinical negligence • Specific areas of testamentary capacity, fitness to plead and stand trial • Psychological trauma due to accidents, industrial or criminal injury • P...

Medico-legal assessments of children and young people and their families in public law (care proceedings - Single Joint Expert) • Medical negligence, negligence by public bodies, personal injury and coroner's inquests in children and young people • Reports in investigations by regulatory bodies • Youth offending: assessment for ADHD, autism, dangerousness, fitness to plead

Accident • Assault • Injury • Trauma • Wounding • Personal injury • Torture • Tasers • Medical negligence • Road Traffic Act (drink/drug drive fitness) • Drug & alcohol misuse • Clinical forensic medicine • Fitness to detain • Fitness to be interviewed • Forensic & legal medicine • Deaths in custody • Harm in custody • Miscarriages of justice • Death investigation • Sexual assault • Death in custody • Care in custody • Police complaints • Nutrition &...

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...

Consultant Neuropsychiatrist • Personal injury: traumatic brain injury (mild to severe), multi-track/high-value claims, PTSD, post-concussion syndrome, psychiatric sequelae of injury • Mental capacity: prospective and retrospective assessments under MCA 2005 and ADMA 2015, including finances, litigation, LPA, gifts, tenancy, contact • Testamentary and retrospective testamentary capacity • Fitness to plead • Clinical negligence: psychological impact assessment • Court of Protection • OPG Special Visitor • Dual UK/Ireland registration...

Independent evaluation of psychological & psychiatric problems, including criminal cases • Reviews of Mental Health Act detentions • Family law • Personal injury • PTSD • Secondary victim work • Medical negligence • Criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead & stand trial • Dangerousness & risk assessment • Witness assessment & testamentary capacity • Group claims in relation to historical trauma, including childhood sexual abuse

All aspects of general adult and forensic psychiatry

General adult psychiatry • Neuropsychiatric (psychiatric, cognitive and behavioural) complications of acquired brain injury • Inpatient, PICU, CMHT, crisis and rehabilitation psychiatry • Prison psychiatry • Mental Health Act and Mental Capacity Act • Risk assessment and management • ADHD assessment All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW.

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...

Assessments in: • Forensic risk (sexual and violent) • Personality and mental health functioning • Adult ADHD and autism • Medico-legal • Cognitive and adaptive functioning • Domestic violence • Fitness to plead • Therapy - individual, couples

Brain injury • Assessment of capacity • Neuropsychological assessment & rehabilitation • Neuropsychological assessment of dementia & other neurological disorders • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Post-traumatic stress disorder in brain injury • Criminal responsibility in brain injury • Fitness to plead • Personal injury

Forensic Equity is the UK's largest, fully independent, full-spectrum, forensic science service provider. With some of the most experienced scientists in Europe, our clients can be safe in the knowledge that they are benefiting from an unrivalled source of expertise and the most robust scientific reporting. Our mission is to ensure that fair and impartial forensic science is accessible to all, which is why we readily accept instructions funded by Legal Aid. Accounting Mark Holdsworth FMAAT CFE MAE Robert Miller BSc(Hons) FCA MAE Biology ...

Experienced psychiatric expert witness for civil litigation and criminal cases • Expertise in diagnosis and causation Covering: • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • RTA • Criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead and stand trial • Dangerousness and risk assessment • Sentencing reports Examples of conditions covered: catastrophic injury, depression, anxiety, OCD, PTSD, schizophrenia CPR 35 compliant

I am a Chartered Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience of providing expert witness reports for the Court. Areas of expertise include personal injury, clinical negligence and assessments of mental health and Mental Capacity (MCA 2005) in relation to employment, housing and immigration matters. I am experienced in preparing reports for criminal proceedings, including fitness to plead/stand trial, criminal responsibility, mitigating circumstances, failure to provide. I have specialist expertise and knowledge of assessing individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions, e.g. learning...

Clinical forensic medicine (general) • Clinical forensic medicine - wounding • Road Traffic Act (alcohol & drugs) • Traffic medicine • Police complaints • Custody medicine • Trauma • Assault • ABH • GBH • Assessment of victims of torture • Interpretation of scarring • Sexual assault & sexual offences medicine • Non-accidental injury in children Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate (Criminal Law) by examination 2015 • Member of the Medicolegal Society Additional we

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

I am a trained psychiatrist and have a masters in mental health law. I work as a forensic psychiatrist and have expertise and experience of providing evidence in legal proceedings to courts. I have specialist expertise in learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. I have provided second opinion reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals. I am able to provide psychiatric reports and advice on matters such as fitness to plead.

Clinics at London, Guildford, Leatherhead, Southampton & Horsham. Consultations for medico-legal services in care homes and in individuals' homes may also be possible when based on clinical needs. Also available for travel throughout the UK and abroad. • Neuropsychology expert • Assessment of cognitive & emotional functioning using psychometric & neuropsychological objective assessments & by clinical interview • Known or suspected brain injury • Neuropsychiatric conditions • Neurodeg...

Psychiatric experts • Psychological experts • Fitness to plead • PTSD • ADHD • Domestic violence • Sexual assault • Mental health • IQ assessment • Medical negligence • Forensic drug analysis • Toxicology • Drug valuation • Alcohol/drug driving • DNA forensics • County lines • Mobile and computer forensics • CCTV forensics • Cell site analysis • EncroChats • Modern day slavery • Forensic accounting • Accident investigation • Ballistics • Firearms ̶...

Adult psychiatry, including: • Accident • Anxiety disorders • Bereavement & grief • Chronic pain • Capacity • Depression • Eating disorders • Fitness to plead • Liaison psychiatry • Medical negligence • Mental disorder • Military/armed forces • Mood disorders • Occupational • Paranoia • Personality disorders • Post-traumatic stress disorders • Psychotic disorders • Road traffic accidents • Schizophrenia • Self-esteem • Self-injury • Somatisation & co

Registered with the GMC as a Specialist in Forensic Psychiatry • Member of Royal College of Psychiatrists • Fellow of Royal College of Psychiatrists • Member of 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 expertise & experience in providing: (a) psychiatric reports to the courts in criminal, civil & family cases; (b) independent psychiatric reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals; (c) psy...

• 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

Personal injury: • PTSD • Depression • Chronic pain & medically unexplained symptoms • Exacerbation of pre-existing mental illness • Traumatic brain injury • Neuropsychiatry • Criminal: • Fitness to plead • Mens rea assessments • Drug & alcohol assessments • CICA assessments • Housing: • Disability & vulnerability due to mental illness • Capacity: • Testamentary capacity • Assessments for LPA

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

Since 1993 I have provided assessments & consultations on a variety of criminal & civil matters, including: • Assessments of personal injury following road traffic & industrial accidents • Adjustment disorder • Pain disorder • Assessments of neuropsychological functioning • Assessments of suggestibility & fitness to plead • All aspects of family law • Emphasis is given to presenting the complexities of the clinical situation with sufficient clarity so that it may be understood within a legal framework whilst simultaneously not compromis...

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 •...

Independent expert psychiatric opinion in criminal, family, civil and Court of Protection proceedings • Mental capacity • Fitness to plead • Psychiatric diagnosis and formulation • Risk assessment • Sentencing and disposal • Treatment recommendations and prognosis • DoLS assessments • Conditions: depression, anxiety, PTSD, bipolar disorder, psychosis, personality disorders, ADHD, autism, OCD, substance misuse, stress-related disorders • Oral evidence available • 6-8 week turnaround

A Registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) • Areas of expertise include: • Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD in adults • IQ and cognitive functioning • Psychometric evaluation • Suggestibility • Intellectual disability • Fitness to plead or stand trial • Fitness to practise for psychologists • Psychiatric misdiagnosis • Specialist interest in providing expert witness testimony for cases involving adults with ASD (or a label of Asperger's syndrome) and/or general learning disabilit...

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

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

Psychological testing & assessment of adults • Post-traumatic stress disorder & personal injury • Malingering • Fitness to plead or stand trial • Treatment planning & questions of disposition • Diagnosis of psychopathology • Professional negligence • Anxiety • Depression • Bereavement

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 certifica...