Chest medicine, general • Sleep medicine • Narcolepsy

I specialise in failure to provide (breathalyser) cases in relation to which I have written over 250 reports and appeared in court many times.

Industrial respiratory disease (mesothelioma, asbestos-related illness and silicosis) • Cancer, oncology, chemo/immuno and radio therapy treatments • Traumatic brain injury • Spinal cord injury • Cauda equina • Polytrauma • Amputation • Palliative care and end-of-life care • Long-term conditions and chronic illness (multi organ failure, lung disease, dementia, diabetes, asthma, coronary care, renal disease/dialysis and COPD) • Life-limiting illness • Ostomies • Mesh surgery injury • Neurological conditions • Psychological conditions...

I have acted as an expert witness for over 12 years. My fields of expertise include all asbestos-related lung disease, including mesothelioma, asbestosis, diffuse pleural thickening & asbestos-related lung cancer. I have completed more than 500 reports on these conditions. I am also happy to provide life expectancy reports. I have been fully trained in report writing & courtroom skills & attend regular refresher training. I do not accept instructions for failure to provide reports. Due to workload, I am not...

Health & safety • Occupational diseases (asbestos, noise, hand-arm vibration) • Risk assessments • Personal Protective Equipment • Working at height • Safe systems of work • Legionnaires disease • Investigation of industrial accidents, personal injuries and fatalities • Investigations of fire and explosions • Mechanical engineering design • Investigation of defective engineering design and plant mal-performance

Independent ‘Domiciliary Quantum and Staff Placement’ reports on Personal Injury and Medical Negligence claims. I qualified as a Certified Expert Witness in 2009 in this specialist field, having completed a Bond Solon Expert Witness course in conjunction with Cardiff University (CUBS). Having run my own domiciliary care agency for over 20 years, my knowledge and understanding of home care is considerable. This enables me to assess in depth a client's personal needs, requirements and their domestic capabilities...

Asbestosis • Mesothelioma • Industrial lung disease • Lung cancer • Respiratory disease • Occupational asthma

I provide independent and objective expert witness services in Environmental Health, Occupational Hygiene, Health and Safety, and Fire Safety Risk assessment. I have worked in these areas since 1978 and have provided expert witness services since 1996. I am trained as an expert witness and have provided over a thousand reports for the court. I accept instructions as a Single Joint Expert and from solicitors acting on single instructions for claimants and defendants. I have given evidence in court on numerous...

Occupational hygiene • Exposure to hazardous substances • Asbestos exposure

All aspects of respiratory medicine • Occupational diseases such as, occupational asthma, asbestos-related diseases & other pneumoconiosis • All aspects of general medicine • Life expectancy & prognosis

General medicine & respiratory medicine • Clinical respiratory physiology • Asthma • The interface of heart & lung diseases • Cardiomyopathies • Coronary heart disease • Heart failure • Thyroid diseases • Over 30 years' experience of clinical medicine, both acute & outpatient, in undergraduate & postgraduate teaching hospitals • 20 years' medico-legal practice • Court attendances welcomed • 150 peer-reviewed publications Secretary's email: [email protected]

Respiratory diseases, including asthma, asbestosis, bronchitis, emphysema & mesotheliomal tumour • Environmental factors, including fugitive gas emissions, irritants, carbon monoxide poisoning & toxicology • Occupational disease, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) • Drink driving, failure to give breath sample due to medical impairment • Musculoskeletal disease • Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) • Heavy metals poisoning, including cadmium, lead & mercury Correspondence address: Hollyoaks, 20 Haven Gardens,...

Health & safety management systems • Organisational culture • Training & education • Incident investigation • Workplace traffic management • Machinery safety & guarding • Manual handling • Noise • Thermal comfort & stress • Confined space entry • COSHH assessments • Airborne contaminant control • Experienced in the assessment of requirement for, procurement, training, fitting, use, storage & maintenance of PPE & RPE • Exposure to hazardous substances • Asbestos exposure • Occupational hygiene

Expertise: • Recognition, evaluation & control of occupational health risks such as chemicals, dusts, fumes, vapours & noise Experience: • A practising occupational hygienist with over 30 years' experience in a wide range of industrial & occupational settings with problems including respiratory ill health, e.g. asthma, asbestosis & other respiratory illness, cancer, noise-induced hearing loss, skin problems • Numerous publications & papers • Court experience as expert witness for defence & claimant Professional qualifications: •...

Defence reports and joint expert reports for the court in HSE and local authority prosecutions for asbestos contamination incidents • Historical exposure to asbestos in the workplace and the long-term health effects • Health effects from working with different asbestos products and providing reports for the court • Investigations into poor quality asbestos surveys for a refurbishment/demolition project which detailed missed ACMs and the high potential for exposures