Country expert report writing - Zimbabwe and other English-speaking African countries • I use interpreters for non-English-speaking countries • Assessment of mental health needs of asylum seekers and those facing deportation, then counselling them using a holistic approach, including counselling for loss and grief • Writing domestic violence reports • Understanding and treating symptoms of torture and other war traumas through psychotherapy and writing reports • Researching and interviewing in order to use secondary...

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

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 able to provide psychological reports that will answer the questions in your letter of instruction. The reports will be written for a legal audience, in plain English, with no psychobabble. All my reports will have clear recommendations and practical advice on how the person being assessed can be helped. I am also an Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator. Employment Assessment of: • Effects of work-related stress • Effect of alleged stress on employees • Mental health problems at work • Workplace discrimination...

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 & conversion disorders • Stress disorders • Testamentary capacity • Trauma

General adult psychiatry • Liaison psychiatry • Catatonia • Wernicke's encephalopathy • Psychiatric injury • Personal injury • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Chronic pain Somatic Symptom Disorder Functional Neurological Disorder Negligence (condition & prognosis)

Civil & criminal court reports • Expert witness trained • General adult & forensic psychiatry • Post-traumatic stress disorder & psychiatric aspects of personal injury • Occupational stress • Medical negligence • Parental assessments in child care cases • Electroconvulsive therapy

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

Extensive experience of appearing at court & tribunals • Also instructed as a joint expert witness & assessor for insurance companies • 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 • Regularly instructed in civil & criminal cases

Psychiatric reports • Special interest in UK immigration cases • Fluent Arabic & knowledge of Arabic-speaking countries • Ability to consider subject's condition in context of country conditions • Prepared to undertake investigation as to underlying causes of trauma & matters relating to need for report • Assessment of mental capacity • Fitness to plead • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Negligence in mental health • MSc - Masters Degree (Clinical & Public Health Aspects of Addiction), London • LLM - Masters Degree Medical...

Expert assessment & therapy services for survivors of traumatic experiences, including PTSD • Consultancy & supervision in respect of the above, especially for early intervention services seeking to prevent longer term complications • Extensive experience of work with emergency services • Psychotherapy • Special interest in prevention, evaluation & treatment of trauma reactions evoked in maritime settings, shipping, diving, offshore, fishing, ports, etc. • Anxiety • Depression • OCD • Sexual dysfunction

Psychiatric assessment of adults in a wide range of legal contexts, including: • Personal injury • Medical negligence in psychiatric practice • Criminal proceedings (including homicide and terrorist offences) • Family proceedings • Tribunals • Inquests (including Coroner's Court) • Prison law, dangerousness and risk assessment

Forensic medicine & pathology • Pathology • Homicide • Accidental death • Suicide • Physical assault • Non-accidental injury • Industrial injury • Hospital treatment • Sudden death • Unexpected death • Clinical forensic medicine • Prison deaths Criminal Justice Secure Mail: [email protected]

General adult psychiatry • PTSD • Trauma

Trained in Oxford and London • General Adult Psychiatrist with over 23 years of experience in: PTSD, psychosis, mood and anxiety disorders, Court Diversion, LGBT and transcultural issues and personality disorders • As a medico-legal psychiatrist and expert witness, I have extensive experience in providing opinions to the Home Office, courts and tribunals on patients presenting with complex histories and presentations

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 • Venous access • Thrombophlebitis • Assessment of post-mortem stomach contents • Self-inflicted injury Professor Payne-James...