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...

Neonatal nutrition • Neonatal care • Neonatal transport All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .

He was the Lead Consultant for labour ward & lead for clinical governance in Obstetrics & Gynaecology. His expertise is around intrapartum care, especially on: • Foetal monitoring in labour, including cardiotocograph (CTG) & foetal ECG or ST-Analyser (STAN) • Traumatic births, including shoulder dystocia, perineal trauma, injury sustained secondary to instrumental vaginal births • Caesarean sections & instrumental vaginal births • Postpartum haemorrhage & its management • Vaginal breech delivery & cord prolapse • Placental abnormaliti...

Foetal medicine • Obstetrics • Maternal medicine • Pregnancy complications Instructions accepted via the Premex+ platform

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 .

I have 24 years' experience as a midwife working in many roles including management, teaching and all clinical areas - community, caseload, homebirth and high-risk labour and delivery. I completed Bond Solon training in 2019 and have been working as an expert ever since, and am confident to take cases for claimant or defendant. I am experienced giving verbal evidence and conference calls with multi-disciplinary teams and other experts. I have completed approximately 100 reports, currently on a 70/30 split (claimant/defendant). Experienced in conference calls and joint expert statements....

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.

Enteral and parenteral nutrition (NG, PEG, PEJ, TPN) • Malnutrition, undernutrition and complications arising from inadequate or inappropriate nutritional care • Nutritional management of gastrointestinal disease (including IBS, IBD, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis and coeliac disease) • Nutritional assessment and support in acquired brain injury and neuro-rehabilitation • Assessment of injury, loss of function or delayed recovery arising from suboptimal nutritional intervention (including peri-operative care) • Paediatric ...

Professor Fleming is also an Honorary Consultant Paediatrician, UHBW Foundation NHS Trust, Bristol. Consultant paediatrician experienced in: • Child abuse (young infants) • Perinatal and infant physiology • Infant care, general • Sudden infant deaths • Fabricated or imposed illness by carers • Sleep physiology in children • Unexpected deaths and injuries to infants, older children and adolescents

All aspects of paediatric respiratory disease • Previous cases include: • Delays in diagnosis & mismanagement of children with cystic fibrosis, asthma, inhaled foreign bodies, pneumonia, relationship of housing conditions to symptoms & suffocation risk in relation to certain toys

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 Babla has a specialist interest in neonatal cardiology. His clinical interest in cardiology relates to his research in patent ductus arteriosus as part of his MSc in Advanced Paediatrics, which he has published in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international meetings.

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 .

Main clinical interests lie within general practice and women’s and sexual health medicine.

Expert witness since 2023, instructed on over 60 cases with an equal claimant/defendant split • Experienced in full CPR 35-compliant reports, short form opinions and Early Notification Scheme reviews • Prepared reports for civil proceedings and regulatory cases including fitness to practise investigations • Experience also extends to Scottish, Welsh and Irish jurisdictions • Has provided oral evidence at inquest and is confident in giving evidence under cross-examination

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.

General paediatric medicine • Acute paediatric medicine • Medical and nutritional care of eating disorders up to 18 years of age

I provide opinions for obstetrics cases such as cerebral palsy, shoulder dystocia, Erb’s palsy, antenatal and postnatal care. I am providing rapid clinical reviews and opinions for the NHS Resolution (NHSR) Early Notification Scheme (ENS) on birth injury cases. In gynaecology, I have reported on failed sterilisation, endometriosis, complications of abdominal, hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgery.

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...

Neonatology • Neonatal care • Neonatal intensive care • Neonatal safety • Quality improvement in neonatal care All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .

I have been an NHS GP for 20 years. As a GP, I have worked in a variety of settings, including as a GP Principal (for 8 years), locum work in practices (for 4 years), out-of-hours care, urgent GP care (including within A&E), telephone triage, covering a cottage hospital, looking after patients in nursing and residential homes, and looking after private patients. I currently work as a freelance GP.

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.

All areas of midwifery: inpatient, outpatient, community, low-risk, high-risk, home births, midwife-led units, obstetric-led/shared care, antenatal, intrapartum and postnatal care • Neonatal care for the first 28 days of life CUBS (Cardiff University Bond Solon) Certified Expert Witness

Dr Wilkinson 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: • Acute respiratory distress • Asthma • Cystic fibrosis • Paediatric emergency medicine • Respiration • Respiratory medicine • Respiratory tract infection • Sleep apnoea • Ventilation

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.

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....

All aspects of midwifery care including: • Low- and high-risk pregnancy, labour and birth • Hospital/community-based care of women/babies • High- and low-risk intrapartum care, including midwifery-led births, antenatal and postnatal care • Hospital and community-based delivery, management and care of women who have had instrumental/Caesarean section birth, including management of perineal trauma, stillbirth and foetal loss cases Prior experience as a Head of Midwifery, Risk and Governance Manager provides competence in complex cases across the entirety of the ma...

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 Vasu is a Consultant in Neonatal Medicine at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent. He has been working as an expert witness since 2019 and holds a Masters Degree in Healthcare Law & Ethics and the Cardiff University Bond Solon Civil Expert Witness Certificate. His instruction ratio is ~65% claimant, ~35% defendant. His skills and expertise are in all aspects of neonatal medicine, including general neonatal care, risk management, governance, resuscitation, nutrition, brain injury, hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy, jaundice, infection and respiratory problems....

Cerebral palsy - examining claimants with cerebral palsy aged 4-40, undertaking at least one cerebral palsy report a month. I continue to see children and adults with cerebral palsy in my treating practice, therefore for quantum reports am able to provide the court with an opinion of what is reasonably required lifelong in respect of dietetic treatment Acquired brain and spinal injury - paediatric and adult cases, artificial feeding, weight management, taste and smell impairment, endocrine conditions Liability reports - Wernick...

Mr Cusack 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: • Health screening • Hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy • Intensive care • Ischaemia • Neonatal brain injury • Neonatal growth • Neonatology • Newborn life support • Newborn screening • Premature birth

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...

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

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

Ms Cockshaw 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: • Care management • Intrapartum care • Postnatal care • Pregnancy

A part-time practising midwife working at a busy consultant-led maternity unit. I work as part of a multidisciplinary teaching faculty for the Trust provision of monthly maternity essential training days. I am a national Newborn Life Support (NLS) Instructor accredited by the Resuscitation Council (UK). I hold current registration/revalidation with the NMC. I am a fully accredited member of the Academy of Experts since 2012 (MAE), including professional indemnity insurance, and of the Expert Witness Institute since October 2015 (MEWI). I have completed the Cardiff University Civil Expe...

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 .

Neonatal medicine • All aspects of the medical management of diseases & disorders of the newborn infant, including: • Resuscitation of the newborn • Newborn intensive care • Birth asphyxia • Hypoxic ischaemic brain injury • Jaundice of the newborn & related brain injury • Kernicterus • Infection in the newborn • Surfactant replacement therapy • Assisted ventilation Retired December 2024 • Former Consultant Neonatologist • Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford