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...

• Trauma, stress and medical psychology (including chronic pain) • Chair, British Psychological Society Expert Witness Advisory Group • Regularly instructed in complex and high-value claims; accepts instructions for personal injury, clinical negligence, immigration and employment cases • Approximately 100 expert reports per year (55% claimant, 40% defendant, 5% joint) • Assessment of children, adolescents and adults • CPR-compliant, meticulous, evidence-based assessments • Nationwide and remote assessments (Northern England, Lon...

• Consultant Chartered Clinical and Health Psychologist (BPS) • Registered Practitioner Psychologist (HCPC) • Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (BABCP) I have been qualified for 31 years largely working in NHS adult services within the specialities of mental health, health psychology and physical rehabilitation/pain management - taking a lead role in service development and innovation. I currently work in private practice and I am the Managing Director of an independent psychological consultancy, PsyWorks Ltd. I specialise in the area o...

Dr Gray accepts instructions from the Police, Crown Prosecution Service, defence solicitors and family solicitors, delivering clear, impartial and authoritative expert opinion on the following: • Child sexual abuse • Child physical abuse • Forensic examination • Forensic medicine • Injury interpretation • Adult sexual assault • Adolescent sexual assault • Colposcopic recordings • Images of injuries

General paediatrics • Adolescent medicine • Child and adolescent mental health • Eating disorders • Safeguarding and vulnerable patients • Emergency paediatrics presentations • Complex adolescent conditions • Paediatric service delivery and care pathways All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW.

I am a practising Chartered Clinical Psychologist offering expert witness and medical legal (personal injury) assessments to children, adolescents and families. I have expert witness experience in cases concerning child development, custody, contact, abuse (including sexual abuse), trauma (including RTA), fostering and adoption. Cases involving adults relating to specific issues of trauma or sexual violence may also be considered.

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 •...

Clinical forensic medicine, general • Clinical forensic medicine, sexual abuse • Clinical forensic medicine, wounding • Fitness to be detained • Fitness to be interviewed • Road Traffic Act (drink/drugs & driving) • Police complaints • Trauma • Assault Additional emails: [email protected] [email protected]

Medico-legal reports concerning all aspects of general medical practice • Mental health, mental capacity and MHA Section 12 doctor reviewing medical records • Breach of duty and causation • Medical negligence • Expert for GMC, GPHC, GDC, ROC, Ombudsman, Coroner's court • Medical competence, accidents and negligence • Prescribing and dispensing errors • Therapeutic misadventure • General medical reports in asylum, refugee and immigration cases • Home and prison visits • Coroner cases • Death certificates • Inquests ...

Oxford Medico Legal • Medico-legal examinations, reports & expert opinions, consultancy & educational services in clinical forensic & general medical practice in the British & Irish jurisdictions. Dr Wilkinson is a Registered Medical Practitioner and General Practitioner in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. He is a Forensic Physician, Tutor in Legal Medicine, University of Oxford, Emeritus Lecturer in Forensic & Legal Medicine, University College Dublin. • Forensic Medical Examiner/Sexual Offences Examiner • Past President, Se...

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 .

Dr Hodgkinson 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: • Adjustment disorders • Anxiety • Body dysmorphic disorder • Clinical psychology • Depression • Mood disorders • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Trauma informed care

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

Criminal Justice Expert Reports (defence/prosecution) Special areas of expertise: • Psychometric Testing • Learning Difficulties • Memory Testing • Suggestibility • Head Injury • Asperger's and Autistic disorders • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder • Detection of Malingering or otherwise • Sexual Offences • 'Viewing' offences •Driving, Fitness, Psychological (Cognitive) Assessment Personal Injury Expert Reports and/or Treatment Speci...

General adult psychiatry with particular expertise in psychological trauma, PTSD, complex trauma, domestic abuse, coercive control, historical childhood sexual abuse, personality disorder, psychiatric injury, capacity and vulnerability assessments, and complex psychopharmacology. Practice includes complex, high-conflict and high-value medico-legal matters across civil, criminal and family proceedings.

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 assessment of adults with regards to: • Personality dysfunction • Consequences of childhood trauma • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Personal injury • Personality & parenting

Modern slavery and trafficking of human beings • Sexual violence/physical violence offender risk assessment and management • Child abuse and neglect • Domestic abuse, coercive and controlling relationships, intimate partner violence • Interviewing vulnerable and intimidated witnesses (under Achieving Best Evidence Guidance)

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...

Dr Hamm 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: • Examination • Forensic examination • Forensic pathology • Gynaecology • Obstetric trauma • Obstetrics • Paediatrics • Safeguarding • Sexual abuse • Sexual assault • Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) • Trauma informed care

• Expert witness since 1998 • Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists • Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians • Fellow of the European Conjoint Committee for Sexual Medicine • Medical negligence • Rape, sexual abuse, assault, offences (adult female, female adolescent, child, drugs, alcohol) • Sexual dysfunction (female/male) • Sexually transmitted infections, diseases (HIV, AIDS, herpes, gonorrhoea, Chlamydia, syphilis, hepatitis, warts, HPV) • Impotence (drugs, accidents, tr...

A Paediatrician and Psychotherapist experienced in working with young people and families, particularly with respect to child neglect and protection, family disturbance, substance abuse and domestic violence. A leading authority on adolescence and teen pregnancy and have worked with psychopathic personalities, disorders such as borderline personalities, learning disabilities and with children in situations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, as well as factitious illness (Munchausen)-type syndromes. Also worked with refugees and asylum-seeking youth. I am regularly used by the cou...

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, ...

• 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...

Sexually transmitted infections • Gonorrhoea • Chlamydia • Genital warts • Pelvic inflammatory disease • Syphilis • Pubic lice • Genital candida • Bacterial vaginosis • Urethritis • Trichomonas vaginalis • Genital herpes • Prostatitis • Balanitis • HIV & AIDS • Genitourinary medicine

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

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

I am a Consultant Clinical Psychologist who has previously worked for the NHS for 25 years and has established my own psychological service since 2014. My specialist area is psychological trauma. I run a busy expert witness and psychological therapy practice. In addition, I provide specialist assessments, namely neuropsychological assessments for individuals who have suffered brain injury and any other type of neuropathology. I have been instructed in civil, family and criminal proceedings. I am a Member of the British Psychological Society and hold the status of Associate Fellow....

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

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 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.

We understand the need for a professional service and rapid timescales, within Legal Aid Agency guidelines. Our expert Psychologists and Psychiatrists can provide adult and child assessments within: • Public and private law proceedings • Pre-proceedings • Criminal proceedings • Court of Protection proceedings • Immigration proceedings • Personal injury • Clinical negligence Please contact us to make a referral, discuss your requirements or find out more about the services we can provide.

Adult cognitive and personality assessment, including own family history in relation to ability to parent • Cognitive assessment of adults to determine competence, identify learning difficulties and disabilities, and make recommendations • Educational and emotional or behavioural assessment of adults and children, including abused, neglected and at risk children • Assessment of attachment and bonding in families • Assessment of parenting, including in the context of child care proceedings • Alcohol and drug abuse as pertaining to parenting ability • Domestic...

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

Child psychiatry • Adolescent psychiatry All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 60 Tottenham Court Road, Suite 6177a, Fitzrovia, London, W1T 2EW .

Developmental paediatrics • All aspects of safeguarding children and child protection, including physical abuse, child sexual abuse, neglect, fabricated and induced illness and perplexing presentations.

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...

• 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

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

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

Anna Wybraniec is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years' professional experience in clinical psychology working in the NHS and in private practice in London. She has been involved in preparing medico-legal reports for courts since 2000. She specialises in psychological assessment of personal and criminal injuries following traumatic events, such as: • RTA • Work and industrial accidents • Animal attacks • Physical and sexual assaults • Violence • Emotional and physical abuse • Robberies • Harassment • Medical ne...

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)

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

Examination, deconstruction & investigation of criminal and civil cases • Forensic case analysis • Police & CID operations • Criminal intelligence • Surveillance & covert methodology • Informants & protected witnesses • Major police investigations • Professional standards investigations • Resource management • Effective policy making • I offer a strategic analysis of case management • I am not a private investigator

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 &...