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 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. Recent instructions have encompassed: • Capacity to conduct proceedings • Analysis of an Achieving Best Evidence Interview • Assessment of attachment in a family (parental & sibling)...

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

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

Depression • Anxiety • Stress management • Psychosexual problems • Relationship problems • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Work-related problems • Psychiatric nursing issues, including forensic psychiatry

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

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.

Neuropsychology • Psychological testing • Psychometry • ABI assessment & treatment • Cognitive functioning • Assessment of capacity to learn & change in family law context • Trauma assessment • Personal injury (psychological) • Trauma sequelae • Accident victims • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Psychological assessment of abnormal behaviour, mental disorder, dangerousness & risk • Personality disorders • Psychological counselling & therapies • Psychotherapy • Anxiety disorders • Depressive disorders • Relationships • Pain • Obsessive-compulsive...

Diagnosis and management of complex mental disorders, including psychosis, mood disorders, autism, ADHD. I have expertise in the complexities of diagnosing cases that are at the border between pathology and normality, using my knowledge in psychopathology and diagnostic frameworks. I am a medical member of First Tier Tribunals and have extensive knowledge of the Mental Health Act. I have prepared several reports for courts, and have the necessary and desired proficiencies in this area.

Consultant Old Age Psychiatrist (Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust) & Member, Faculty of Law (University of Oxford) • Mental health problems of all kinds in older people • Capacity & incapacity (including current & retrospective testamentary capacity, & LPA & COP3 certificates) • Mental Health Act work • Psychopharmacology • Dementia, depression, psychosis & anxiety disorders • Negligence • Training provider • CUBS Expert Witness Certificate • Civil & criminal Mental Capacity Act work

Assessment of mental incapacity • Capacity assessment • Medical/clinical negligence (adult psychiatry)

Dr Alice Green has 20 years' experience of working in crisis and acute adult mental health within the NHS, as well as establishing and running a highly successful independent practice, providing expert witness services, specialist psychological consultation and therapy to clients referred by solicitors, insurance companies and rehabilitation services. Medico-legal work includes the preparation of psychological assessments and expert witness psychology reports for court, specialising in the field of personal...

Child psychiatry • Adolescent psychiatry All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.

I used to undertake the assessment of claimants and defendants in civil claims, including personal injury and medical negligence cases. I have retired from the NHS, and have now stopped taking new cases. I continue to sit on the NEAP committee and to train doctors who seek reapproval under the MHA (1983). I am AC and Section 12(2)-approved. I am an on-call psychiatrist for Cygnet Hospitals Bradford.

Expert witness work in child and family law • Family assessments • Adolescents involved in criminal law (vulnerability assessment) • Immigration evaluation - assessment of mental health

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, including completion of HCR20s • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Social work holistic needs assessments • Health and Social Care...

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

Liaison psychiatry • Head injury • PTSD & related disorders • Medical negligence • General psychiatry • Employment issues • Psychiatric occupational health

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

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...

I have been a Consultant Psychiatrist with Oxleas NHS Trust since 1999 and I have been providing medico-legal reports for over 20 years. I am very experienced in personal injury and clinical negligence work, and provide reports for many leading claimant and defendant solicitors. I deal with most areas of psychiatry and levels of complexity, and have a particular interest in chronic pain, somatisation, head injury cases, PTSD and depression. I have provided advice to the BMA Board of Science, on mental health...

I have over 10 years of experience in the following areas: • Criminal matters • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • Parole-based reports • Capacity-based reports Typically, the report types I have produced during this time have included: • Desktop screening reports • Breach of duty reports • Condition and prognosis • Fitness to plead and court-based recommendation reports • Complex or serious injury reports Visiting Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, University of Lincoln

Depressive disorders • Anxiety disorders • Alcoholism • Stress in employment • Psychological effects of accidents, including PTSD & assault, including rape • Civil matters relating to access to children • Psychological reaction to medical, surgical or obstetric negligence • Post-traumatic embitterment disorder

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 • Neuropsychological assessment of reactions to AstraZeneca, Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccinations • Carbon monoxide poisoning

Neuropsychological assessment, diagnoses, treatment and rehabilitation of cognitive functioning following brain injury • Psychometric testing and assessment of intelligence (IQ), memory, executive skills and emotional and behavioural functioning • Medico-legal assessment of PTSD, adjustment disorders, depression, anxiety and other psychiatric disorders following injury HCPC Registered (PYL 26865) Consulting rooms 10 Harley Street, London , W1G 9PF Correspondence address 14 Warres Road, Taunton , TA2 8QF

Personal injury • Medical negligence • Family courts proceedings • Criminal & forensic reports • PTSD • Occupational health • Adult ADHD • Drugs & alcohol • Sexual abuse • Personality disorders • Mood disorders & psychoses

Mental illness • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Family law • Testamentary capacity • Court of Protection • Forensic psychiatry • Mental Health Act • Psychotherapy • Road traffic accidents • Mental Health Review Tribunals • Immigration • Personal injury • Clinical negligence • Employment law • Member of Council of the Medicolegal Society • Member of the Independent Doctor Federation sitting on the Education Committee

1. Clinical neuropsychology • Assessment & diagnoses of brain functioning following head injury, post-concussive state, dementia & other neurological disorders 2. Psychometric testing (learning disability, general adult & older adult populations), including: assessment of intelligence (IQ), memory testing & other cognitive functioning 3. Neurorehabilitation following brain injury & other neurological conditions 4. Psychiatric diagnoses , in particular medico-legal assessment of PTSD, adjustment disorders, depression,...

Psychological sequelae following personal injury • Post-traumatic stress disorder, assessment & treatment • Phobias, depression & anxiety, assessments & treatment

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

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...

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...

Psychological effects of personal injury • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Adjustment disorder • Phobias • Depression • Anxiety • Work-related stress • Trauma • Children & adult assessments • Psychological effects of road traffic accidents Appointments throughout North West England; remote appointments and home visits as necessary.

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 Special areas of expertise: • Phobic Anxiety (including travel, driving post-accident) •...

Psychiatric assessments • Providing expert testimony in legal proceedings • Evaluating criminal responsibility Managing mentally disordered offenders • Assessing risk of violence • Providing treatment to forensic psychiatric patients All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.

General psychiatry • Mental health & deafness • Medico-legal issues in psychiatric cases • Preparation of psychiatric reports in civil & criminal cases

Specialist expertise in the assessment & treatment of reactions to personal injury (accidents, medical negligence, assault), including post-traumatic stress disorder, depression & chronic fatigue • Provision of medico-legal reports, specialising in psychological assessment of emotional reactions (post-traumatic stress, depression, panic, anxiety) following a range of traumas (e.g. road traffic accidents, medical negligence, train crashes, assault, accidents at work)

General adult psychiatry • PTSD • Trauma

All adult general psychiatry 16-65 age group • Subspecialty: post-partum psychiatric disorders • Bonding difficulties • Adult psychiatric assessments of mothers in care proceedings with social services • Personal injury • Injury, somatization, road traffic accidents, PTSD, psychiatric negligence • Some forensic experience (not homicide) • Asylum seekers • Forensic psychiatry, including prison assessments • Immigration cases • Psychiatric aspects of crime

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)

Preparation of psychological assessments and expert witness psychology reports for court, specialising in the field of family court, personal injury and clinical negligence, including psychometric testing, assessment of mental health and mental capacity (MCA, 2005). Expert witness training in psychology was undertaken at the British Psychological Society. I have specialist expertise and knowledge of assessing individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions, e.g. learning disabilities/learning difficulties,...

• Section 12(2) Approved • Medical Director - Priory Hospital Barnt Green • Medical Director - Birmingham Neuromodulation Centre (rTMS Therapy) • Honorary Senior Lecturer at Aston Medial School Psychiatric disorders • Negligence • Personal injury • Adult ADHD • PTSD • Complex PTSD • Trauma sequelae (personal injury) • Personality disorder • Criminal responsibility • Fitness to plead/stand trial and disposal • Dangerousness and psychiatric risk assessment • Offender psychiatric assessment • Capacity assessment • Disability assessment •...

An experienced educational psychologist with considerable and successful experience at carrying out a range of assessments to detect specific learning difficulties, including the effects of brain injury on a child's ability to learn. Qualified to conduct a range of psychometric tests with children and young people between the ages of 6 and 16. Able to assess a child's learning potential as well as those forms of teaching which will best help a child to learn.

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

Areas of clinical expertise The assessment and management of: • Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders • Personality disorders • Dual diagnosis/substance and alcohol use disorders • Mood disorders (depression and bipolar) • Intellectual/learning disability • Adult ADHD • Autism Spectrum Disorder • Dementia syndromes • PTSD Areas of experience in the Criminal Courts I have completed expert witness reports and provided oral evidence in court on a range of offences, including murder, manslaughter, sexual offences,...

Dr John Mallen is in private practice as a Clinical Neuropsychologist. He is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol) and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society (AFBPsS) and is approved by the Health Professions Council as a Practitioner Psychologist (Registration Number: PYL 15629). Dr John Mallen has completed the appropriate British Psychological Society specialist conversion courses in Postgraduate Clinical Neuropsychology and Expert Witness Training, demonstrating the necessary skills, experience...

Personal injury • Psychiatric consequences of road traffic accidents • Psychiatric consequences of work-related accidents • Work-related stress • Psychiatric aspects of stress • Psychiatric aspects of assault • Depression • Bipolar disorder • Anxiety • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Schizophrenia • Adult psychiatry • Liaison psychiatry • Perinatal psychiatry • Psychiatric disorders of pregnancy • Postnatal psychiatric disorders • Postnatal depression • Safeguarding children • Psychiatric aspects of childcare proceedings • Psychiatric condition...

I provide clinical psychology expert witness reports for court in the areas of personal injury and medical negligence involving children and adolescents. The reports assess the impact of traumatic events on the psychological functioning of children, the nature of the injury suffered and give recommendations for treatment. I provide clinical psychology expert witness reports for court proceedings involving public and private legal cases involving the care and upbringing of children and adolescents.

Neuroscience • Neuroimaging • Neurological injury & rehabilitation • Neuropsychology: diagnoses, causation & treatment of a wide range of neurological conditions, including injury (such as incurred in the context of MVAs) • Major trauma • Pain • Anxiety disorders • Bereavement • Depression • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Human factors in sport & occupational performance • Aviation psychology • Specialist interests & expertise in the following physical conditions: neurological disorders, pain management & physical disability

Cognitive functions • Personality traits • Psychopathology • Trauma/parenting skills • Relationship dynamics • Neurodevelopmental conditions - ASD • HCPC-Registered Clinical Psychologist • Trained Schema Therapist/Trained Cognitive Behavioural Therapist • Trained Gottman Method Couples Therapist - Level 3 Training Completed/Level 3 Safeguarding Trained - Adults and Children • Master of Science in Neuroscience - King’s College London - graduated with Distinction

Neuropsychological assessment & psychometric testing • Assessing the impact of accident, assault, poisoning or disease process on intellectual level, memory functioning, language, perception, personality & behaviour, etc. • Assessment of emotional state following accident, assault or medical malpractice, e.g. post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, depression • Also overall impact of accident or assault on quality of life, e.g. impact on employment, social & leisure activity, relationships

Adult psychological assessment for civil & criminal court proceedings: • Cognitive & intellectual functioning (e.g. IQ) • Daily adaptive/social functioning • Capacity & fitness to plead • Executive functioning (e.g. adaptive behaviour, abstract thinking, mental flexibility, problem solving, planning, inhibition & social behaviour) • Malingering • Memory • Suggestibility & compliance • Personality disorders & clinical syndromes • Dementing processes • Affective conditions (e.g. anxiety disorders, depression, PTSD)

Statutory Special Educational Needs & Disabilities mediation & ADR • Statutory Special Educational Needs & Disabilities judicial ADR • Statutory Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Tribunal Appeals (SEND Chamber) • Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Statutory Framework & legislation • Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Mental Capacity Assessments • Special Educational Needs & Disabilities Youth Offending Team • Statutory Education, Health & Care Plan analysis & composition • Accredited CMC Training Provider...

Adult personality disorder • Adult mental health • Impact of alcohol and drug misuse • Adult attachment style • Trauma • Adverse childhood experiences • Relationship issues and family dynamics, including impact of domestic violence and/or substance misuse • Psychopathology in adults • Parenting (including therapeutic and support needs of parents, prospect of change and the likely timescale for that change) • Personal injury • Risk of violence • Risk of sexual violence

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...

All aspects of general adult psychiatry, including: • Mental Health Act appeals • Psychiatric sequelae of injuries • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Stress-related psychiatric disorders Initial contact by email or telephone only

Also consulting at 14 The Tything, Worcester, WR1 1HD. Medico-legal report writing (family, civil, crime) • Divorce & separation • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Medical negligence • Children & adolescents with neuro-developmental processing problems • Children & adolescents who are not fulfilling their potential • Child & adolescent mental health • Family problems & family mediation • Child development • Children & adolescents with educational problems • Care proceedings • Mediation with schools • Medico-legal mediation • Removal...

Post-traumatic stress disorder • Depressive disorders • Drugs in psychiatry, such as antidepressants & antipsychotics • Medical examinations (professional) • Medical negligence • Schizophrenia Alternative addresses: (i) 88 Rodney Street, Liverpool , L1 9AR. (ii) Applied MCT, Moss Nook House, 6-8 Trenchard Drive, Manchester , M22 5NA.

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...

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 • Disability Discrimination Act - psychiatric •...

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

All aspects of general adult and forensic psychiatry

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 Compensation...

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

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

General adult psychiatry • All kinds of mental disorder • Experienced in psychopharmacology • Drugs used in the treatment of mental disorders • Mood disorders • Manic depressive illness • Bipolar mood disorder and depression • Psychosis • Somali mental health • Medical negligence and personal injury • Assessing parental mental health Additional e-mail address: [email protected]

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

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

Clinical Psychologist and NHS Clinical Lead with 23 years of experience • Personal injury and RTA • Medical negligence • Cognitive assessments, including learning disabilities and difficulties and assessments of cognitive functioning/IQ • Assessment and treatment of mental health problems such as anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), depression, personality disorder, adjustment disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Work-related stress and trauma • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) • Eye movement...

Assessing • Internal verification • Neurodiversity and criminal behaviour • Neurodiversity and education • Forensic psychology and counselling those with neurodiversities • Coaching those with neurodiversity • Mental health and crime • Autism • ADHD

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

Psychological testing & assessment of adults • Post-traumatic stress disorder & personal injury • Malingering • Fitness to plead or stand trial • Treatment planning & questions of disposition • Diagnosis of psychopathology • Professional negligence • Anxiety • Depression • Bereavement

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...

Consultant Psychiatrist/Neuropsychiatrist • Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist & Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychological Medicine SLaM NHS FT/IIoNNP • Trained in neuropathology in Glasgow • Psychiatric training (Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospitals, London) in forensic psychiatry, drug abuse & psychotherapy • Specialist training in neuropsychiatry (National Hospital for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London), especially of epilepsy, head injury & conversion disorders • Chronic pain, PTSD, personal injury, occupational psychiatry,...

A Registered Clinical Psychologist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) • Areas of expertise include: • Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD in adults • IQ and cognitive functioning • Psychometric evaluation • Suggestibility • Intellectual disability • Fitness to plead or stand trial • Fitness to practise for psychologists • Psychiatric misdiagnosis • Specialist interest in providing expert witness testimony for cases involving adults with ASD (or a label of Asperger's syndrome) and/or general learning...

NHS or criminal cases • General adult psychiatry 18 years and above • Stress conditions • Refugee health All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.

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.

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

Psychiatric disorders • Post-traumatic stress & other related disorders • Depressive disorders • Anxiety disorders • Psychotic disorders • Alcohol & drug misuse • Personal injury assessments • Risk assessment • Child care parent assessments • Equality Act assessments • Medical negligence • Capacity assessments • Consultant Psychiatrist, Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust (Medical Director 2000-2015) • Registrar, Royal College of Psychiatrists 2010-2015 • Chair, South West Clinical Network in Mental Health (2015-2017) • Visiting Professor, Bournemouth...