Consultant in acute and general medicine and medical toxicology/substance abuse medicine • Medicines safety

I specialise in the neuropsychological assessment of the cognitive, emotional and behavioural consequences of acquired brain injury in adults following road traffic accidents, assaults, anoxia or exposure to toxic substances. I have experience in neurotoxicology, epilepsy, drug and alcohol misuse, tumours and HIV, and in the areas of personal injury and clinical negligence. I am a recognised expert witness by Cardiff University Law School and Bond Solon, and I am trained in the legal aspects of report writing, giving evidence in court and the responsibilities of a single joint expert. ...

Clinical neuropsychological assessment • Assessment of cognitive, psychological & behavioural function • Psychometric testing • Brain injury & disease • Traumatic brain injury & head injury • Stroke • Dementia • Epilepsy • Alcohol • Anoxia • Differentiating organic, psychological & behavioural causes of problems, including comment on issues of malingering • Personal injury compensation • Prognosis • Rehabilitation Additional website: http://www.clinicalneuropsychology.co.uk

Accident investigation • Major hazards • Fire • Explosion • Toxic gas • Chemical spills • HSWA • COMAH • COSHH • DSEAR • Industrial injuries from chemical & process hazards • Risk from transport, storage, handling & treatment of chemicals, including hazardous waste • Environmental impact assessment • Accidents to the environment • Planning inquiries (risk & air pollution issues) • Air pollution, including odour nuisance & food tainting • Cargo quality disputes • Cargo contamina...

I am a busy clinical dermatologist with wide ranging experience in adult and paediatric dermatology, as well as skin cancers and eczema.

Asbestos exposure & illness: asbestosis, mesothelioma, lung cancer & pleural disease claims, property contamination • Occupational noise exposure (NIHL) in all industries • Occupational health - respiratory, dermal & cancer claims, e.g. dust, metals, silica, solvents, gases, lead, temperature & light • RSI/workplace injury • Musculoskeletal, PPE issues & accidents • Microbiology: mould & bacteria, Aspergillus  spp • Water quality/source for injury, health (e.g. Legionellosis) & property • Land contamin...

Forensic Equity is the UK's largest, fully independent, full-spectrum, forensic science service provider. With some of the most experienced scientists in Europe, our clients can be safe in the knowledge that they are benefiting from an unrivalled source of expertise and the most robust scientific reporting. Our mission is to ensure that fair and impartial forensic science is accessible to all, which is why we readily accept instructions funded by Legal Aid. Accounting Mark Holdsworth FMAAT CFE MAE Robert Miller BSc(Hons) FCA MAE Biology ...

Emergency medicine • Urgent care and minor injuries • Standards of care in the Emergency Department • Toxicology, overdoses and poisoning • Treatment of head injuries • Treatment of upper and lower limb fractures and soft tissue injuries • Resuscitation and major trauma • Management of sports injuries • Back pain, including diagnosis of cauda equina syndrome

Neurology • Neurological effects of disease • Neurological effects of trauma • Neurological effects of stress • Lately Senior Consultant Neurologist to Kings College Hospital

Nerve/muscle injuries: from accidents, occupation, irradiation, toxins, medicines, surgery, medical procedures, anaesthesia • Objective assessment on diagnosis, causation, rehabilitation & prognosis is enhanced by nerve conduction studies & electromyography • Experience in EEG Claimants seen for full medical reports or (at lower fee) reports focused on nerve/muscle injury. Member of Association of British Neurologists & American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine.

Occupational hygiene • Exposure to hazardous substances • Asbestos exposure

Professor Ascanio Tridente is a Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Acute (Internal) Medicine since 2013 and Clinical Director of R&D at Mersey & West Lancashire NHS. He receives instructions from courts and claimant and defendant organisations for catastrophic injury, personal injury and negligence cases pertaining to: • Adult critical care/intensive care medicine • Adult acute general internal medicine • Sepsis/severe infections • Acute respiratory distress syndrome/ARDS • Resuscitation • Critically ill burns patients/...

Inhalation toxicology • Biochemistry • Central nervous system • Combustion or fire toxicology • Multiple chemical sensitivity • Human health risk assessment • Industrial chemicals • Fire-retardant chemicals • Pharmaceuticals • Pesticides • Anaesthetic agents • Cyanide • Carbon monoxide • Eurotox Registered Toxicologist, 1998 • Full Member of British Toxicology Society, 1998 • Diplomate, American Board of Toxicologists, 1996 • Full Member of Society of Toxicology, 1986 • Member of editorial boa...

• 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...

Exposure assessment and control of chemical, physical and biological agents • Personal protective equipment requirement, selection, use and management • Risk assessment • Health and safety management systems • Incident investigation • Manual handling • Asbestos exposure

Occupational hygiene - respiratory cases, e.g. carcinogens, asthmagens and COPD (such as dust, silica, fume, isocyanates and other vapours) • Dermal cases (such as solvents, metals, acids, resins and other chemicals) • Microbiology (mould and bacteria, such as Aspergillus spp and legionella)

Technical litigation & arbitration • Process & project engineering • Safety & loss prevention • Accident investigation & forensic engineering, including fire, explosions & toxic releases • Safety & risk management • Offshore safety • Hazard & risk assessment • Experience of major public inquiries & litigations, including Flixborough, Kings Cross, Ocean Odyssey, Piper Alpha, Ladbroke Grove rail crash, Buncefield, Grenfell Tower Fire case • Also experience of planning inquiries, including major hazard installations

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