Mental capacity

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

Dr Ntanda in SUNDERLAND
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...
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...
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...
Dr Jacobson in BECKENHAM
I have special interests in the fields of: • Neuropsychiatry • Affective disorders, including bipolar disorder • Psychiatric disorders following accidents, including post-traumatic stress disorder • Chronic pain • Neuropsychiatric sequelae of head injury • Brain damage in children & adults • Assessment of capacity
Dr Soremekun in MANCHESTER
Dr Soremekun 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: • Brain damage, injury and tumour • Cognitive behavioural therapy • Cognitive disorders • Dementia • Diminished capacity • Haemorrhage • Hypoxic brain injury • Meningitis • Mental capacity • Mental capacity assessment • Multiple sclerosis • Neurological disorders • Neuropsychology • Rehabilitation • Str
Mr Burdon in MANCHESTER
I am a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with 15+ years’ NHS forensic experience, specialising in mental health, autism and learning disabilities. I assess communication and social cognition, and their impact on risk, behaviour, mental capacity and legal participation. I consider the person as a whole, taking into account the person's context, enviroment and communication partners. I provide practical recommendations to support communication, decision-making and engagement.
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
Last Minute Reports in LEEDS
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 ̶...
Dr Boyd in BRISTOL
Expertise in the areas of adult mental health, learning disability and forensic behaviour. Specialist areas: • Adults with psychological difficulties in response to traumatic events (personal injury, employment injury, clinical negligence). • Risk assessment of adults with offending behaviour/learning disability. Chartered Member of the BPS, HCPC Registered and a member of the Association of Clinical Psychologists UK (ACP-UK). In independent practice in Southwest England. Has worked as an expert witness in civil law since 2014 and conducted expert psychologi...
Dr Vaidya in SHEFFIELD
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
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 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...
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...
Dr Malik in BIRMINGHAM
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
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 Zapata in ELY
• Fitness to practise and disciplinary cases (GMC, GDC, NMC, SRA) at investigation, tribunal and remediation stages • Independent psychiatric assessment of veterans and regulated professionals, including health professionals, lawyers, police officers, business leaders • Assessment of occupational functioning, remediation and risk to patients/public • Expert opinion on mental disorders, impairment, insight and prognosis • Complex diagnostic assessments and psychopharmacology • Mood, anxiety, OCD, psychotic, bipolar, personality, PTSD/traum...
Dr Donner in BERKHAMSTED
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...
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
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 Cahill in ALTRINCHAM
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
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 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
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...
Dr Haye in MANCHESTER
Dr Haye 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: • Acquired brain injury • Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) • Chronic pain • Hypoxic brain injury • Memory assessment • Mental capacity • Mental health • Neurodegenerative conditions • Neurological disorders • Neuropsychology • Spinal injury • Stroke • Traumatic brain injury
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 •...
Professor Dr Thompson in POOLE
Neuropsychological assessment & consultancy • Medico-legal, civil & criminal • Medical negligence • Road traffic collisions • Neurodegenerative disorders • Memory problems • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Depression • Anxiety • Client visits • Testamentary & mental capacity • Head injury • Fatigue • Brain damage • Frontal lobe damage • Carbon monoxide poisoning
Dr Lewis in SOLIHULL
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...
Dr Das in MANCHESTER
Dr Das 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 • Clinical risk • Criminal profiling • Criminal responsibility • Diminished capacity • Memory assessment • Mental capacity • Mental capacity assessment • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Psychosis • Trauma assessment
Dr Mole in OXFORD
Neuropsychological assessment • Cognitive assessment • Psychometric testing • Assessment of cognitive, psychological and behavioural function • Neurological conditions • Traumatic brain injury • Head injury • Concussion • Stroke • Dementia • Epilepsy • Anoxia • Differentiating organic impairment from other causes of problems • Performance validity testing • Personal injury compensation • Mental capacity assessment • Prognosis • Rehabilitation Consulting in Oxford and London
Dr Naclad in YORK
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
Dr Pietromartire in MILTON KEYNES
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.
Dr Hides in PONTEFRACT
Clinical Psychologist and NHS Clinical Lead with 23 years of experience • Personal injury and RTA • Medical negligence • Cognitive assessments, including learning disabilities and difficulties and assessments of cognitive functioning/IQ • Assessment and treatment of mental health problems such as anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression, personality disorder, adjustment disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Work-related stress and trauma • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) • Eye movement desensitisation and reproc...
Dr Lawson in HALIFAX
Psychiatric capacity assessments of complex and/or contested cases likely to be referred to or already before the Court of Protection - relating to people aged 18 years or over who have learning disability with or without autistic spectrum disorder and other psychiatric and mental disorders. Professional supervision for BIAs and others providing reports under the MCA 2005 and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguard Assessments.
Dr McLoughlin in LIVERPOOL
Practising Emergency Medicine Consultant and Independent Expert Witness specialising in emergency medicine breach of duty, traumatic brain injury, acute neurological deterioration, intoxication-related presentations, criminal injury, coronial proceedings and medical causation arising from time-critical emergency care. Provides independent medico-legal opinion across civil, criminal and coronial jurisdictions, including condition and prognosis, breach of duty, causation, clinical negligence, personal injury, catastrophic injury and emergency care litigation. Regularly instructed in matt...
Dr Dan Lee in LONDON
Geriatric medicine • Dementia • Falls • Rehabilitation • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • Mental capacity • Life expectancy Also consulting at: 10 Heol Y Felin, Cardiff , CF5 4BT.
Dr Amin in SALE
Assessment of mental incapacity • Capacity assessment • Medical/clinical negligence (adult psychiatry)
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 • ...

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