Professor Monteiro in MANCHESTER
Personal injury, road traffic accidents • Accidental injuries • Workplace injuries • Mental health and deafness • Assessment of clients with linguistic differences, i.e. different spoken languages with interpreters • Medico-legal reports on individuals on the autistic spectrum (provides an ASC outpatient clinic) • Reports for industrial tribunals on deafness and tinnitus • Reports for health insurance claims • Fitness to work • Military psychiatry • Remote assessments • Assessments at other venues by negotiation
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...
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
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 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 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 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 Dunsmuir-White in LEEDS
Adult mental health • Trauma, complex trauma and PTSD • Addictions • Anger and violence • Childhood sexual abuse • Psychological assessment following road traffic incidents • Psychological assessment following workplace injury • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Assessment of risk of violence (HCR-20 trained), sexual violence (RSVP trained), domestic violence (SARA trained) and stalking (SAM trained)
Dr Bains in THATCHAM
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.
Dr Appleford in RUGELEY
General psychiatry • Mental health & deafness • Medico-legal issues in psychiatric cases • Preparation of psychiatric reports in civil & criminal cases
Dr McKay in LONDON
General adult psychiatry • Liaison psychiatry • Neuropsychiatry • Psychiatric injury • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Chronic pain • Somatic symptom disorder • Functional neurological disorder Only in cases of personal injury and only instructed via solicitors.
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 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 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 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 Oyewole in LONDON
Psychological trauma secondary to accident or work-related stress • Criminal cases with associated psychiatric illness • Mental Health Act work • Medical malpractice • Cases of competence in elderly individuals • Parent assessment for care proceedings
Dr McGillion in LONDON
Personal injury (adults) • PTSD • Anxiety disorders • Road traffic accidents • Work accidents • Housing stress • Psychological aspects of medical negligence, e.g. chronic pain • Extensive experience of working with interpreters • Experience of utilising psychometric assessments in assessing a wide range of mental health problems
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 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...
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 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 Medley in NEWARK
Adult psychiatry • Post-traumatic disorders • Psychiatric sequelae to stress, trauma & physical injury • Psychiatric complications of physical illness • Compensation claims involving psychological disability • Assessment of mental incapacity • Psychiatric forensic reports • Occupational stress & psychiatric injury • Negligence • Child protection issues • Disability discrimination Secretary: Julie Waplington Mobile Tel: 07837 270164 E-mail:
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Dr Conning in SEVENOAKS
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
Dr Allen in HIGH WYCOMBE
All matters pertaining to adult general psychiatry • Special interest in drug- & alcohol-related issues & those involving putative automatism • Experience in assessing perpetrators of sexual abuse • Regular involvement in the assessment of adults in family psychiatry • Regular involvement in the assessment & diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder
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 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
Professor Elliott in SHREWSBURY
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
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 Seneviratne in LONDON
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
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 Elliott in DURHAM
Assessment of psychopathology/general mental health • Risk assessment and management of violence, stalking and sexual violence • Capacity to protect in non-offending parents • Assessment of terrorism- and extremism-related offences/threat assessment • Personality assessments (including personality disorders and psychopathy) • Malingering and effort testing • Arson investigations • Non-accidental injury/physical child abuse • Online offending • Assessment and treatment of paraphilic sexual interests • Suicide and self-harm risk assessm...
Dr Gerber in GLASGOW
General adult psychiatry • Sexology • Psychosexual medicine • Gender identity issues • Cannabis-based medical products All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .
Dr Pickering in STOCKPORT
I specialise in psychological assessments of adolescents and adults from the age of 14 years and above. I have been carrying out psychological assessments for the civil courts since 2008. My specialist areas of expertise include the assessment of: • General mental health • Trauma, PTSD and complex PTSD • Trauma following childhood abuse • Trauma with individuals seeking asylum • Trauma following injury or clinical negligence • Trauma and impact on mental health following criminal injury • Adult attachment, personality assessment, risk assessment, ...
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 Proctor in TARPORLEY
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
Dr Wilkins in MAIDENHEAD
I am a consultant general adult and forensic psychiatrist. My name is on the Specialist Register. I have provided expert witness services for over 40 years. I regularly receive instructions from solicitors, regulatory bodies, local authorities and others in relation to legal proceedings - criminal, civil and tribunal proceedings. I have received accredited training and have been an accredited trainer.
Dr Amin in SALE
Assessment of mental incapacity • Capacity assessment • Medical/clinical negligence (adult psychiatry)