• Analytical and interpretive toxicology of drugs and related biochemical markers in biological specimens, including emerging novel psychoactive substances • Pharmacology and pharmacodynamics, including mechanisms of toxicity, interactions and behavioural effects • Specialist knowledge of rare and emerging substances not routinely encountered in toxicology practice • Interpretation of post-mortem and casework toxicology and biochemical findings, including drug concentrations, redistribution, metabolic disturbance and relevance to causation, impairment and ex...

Dr Lawson 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 toxicology • Drug interactions • Endocrinology • Forensic toxicology • Governance • Mass spectrometry • Poisoning • Post-mortem toxicology • Toxicology