Dr McCarthy in BRISTOL
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.
Dr Valinejad in DARTFORD
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...
Mrs Birnbaum in LONDON
Assessment of children & young people (3-25 years) with learning, emotional & behavioural difficulties • Preparation of detailed reports for family courts & appeals against Local Education Authority Education Act decisions • Submission of oral evidence • High court & tribunal experience • Experience as a single joint expert
Dr Pradhan in BIRMINGHAM
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 •...
Ms Waitman in NEWARK
Expert witness work in child and family law • Family assessments • Adolescents involved in criminal law (vulnerability assessment) • Immigration evaluation - assessment of mental health
Mrs Martin-Alam in RICHMOND
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
Ms Kirk in ELY
Paediatric speech & language therapy • Development delay • Speech & language disorders • Autism spectrum disorder • Cerebral palsy • Down syndrome
Dr Kopuri in LONDON
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, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.
Dr Sharma in MANCHESTER
Main clinical interests lie within general practice and women’s and sexual health medicine.
Dr Moore in LEICESTER
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.
Ms Jackson in LONDON
Assessment of attachment & bonding in families • Assessment of parenting, including in the context of child care proceedings • Alcohol & drug abuse as pertaining to parenting ability • Domestic violence, physical, sexual & emotional abuse as pertaining to parenting ability • Adult cognitive & personality assessment, including own family history in relation to ability to parent • Cognitive assessment of adults to determine competence, identify learning difficulties & disabilities, & make recommendations • Educational...
Dr Birch in email/phone contact only
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....
Dr du Toit in BRACKNELL
Paediatrics • Radiology • Paediatric radiology 'Easy to request and there was no problem.' Holly Hepburn, Harrison Legal 'Dr Du Toit is great. We don't have any problems with her. She's quick and effective.' Jasjit Kaur, Powell & Company Solicitors 'She is very efficient and always replies to emails. Overall it is a good experience. The communication part is good where other experts do not reply to emails where we need to chase them.' Marion Milligan, Livingstone Brown All correspondence to: British Medical Experts,...
Dr Adeyemi in TADWORTH
Provides an expert witness service which includes preparation of medico-legal expert reports for safeguarding children and child protection (physical abuse, neglect, perplexing presentations, fabricated and induced illness), meeting of experts and giving evidence in court. Dr Adeyemi has 30 years' paediatric experience, the last 22 years being specifically in community paediatrics and safeguarding children; the last 5 years have included medico-legal work.
Dr Habibi in LONDON
Paediatric intensive care • Emergency medicine • Infectious diseases • Meningococcal disease • Meningitis & septicaemia • Respiratory diseases • Ethical issues • General paediatrics • Life expectancy • Sleep medicine
Dr Bracey in LIVERPOOL
I have 35 years' experience as an NHS GP and am now a part-time sessional GP. For 14 years I was a GP trainer. I have been preparing reports on allegations of GP clinical negligence for 20 years. I am a Fellow of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, and was previously an Instructing Doctor on this subject. Until recently, I was a part-time SCMO in Family Planning. For many years I was a part-time CMO in Child Welfare. Over the past 25 years I have developed a practice specialising in reviewing...
Dr King in HARTLEY
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)...
Miss Blakey in MANCHESTER
Miss Blakey’s consultant practice comprises general paediatric orthopaedics and trauma, but she predominantly sees paediatric and adolescent hip disorders. Miss Blakey has an adult practice at the Doncaster Royal Infirmary where she manages patients appropriate for hip preservation surgery.
Dr Mittal in MANCHESTER
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.
Dr Edward in EDINBURGH
I am a practising Chartered Clinical Psychologist offering assessment and therapeutic intervention to children and adolescents. I have expert witness experience specifically in relation to children and adolescents. Prior cases have concerned child development, custody, contact, abuse (including sexual abuse), trauma (including RTA) and adoption. Cases involving adults relating to specific issues of trauma or sexual violence may also be considered.
Dr Allison in SHEFFIELD
General paediatric medicine • Acute paediatric medicine • Failure to thrive • Medical and nutritional care of eating disorders up to 18 years of age
Dr Blyth in BIRMINGHAM
Adoption • Asylum seekers • Attachment • Child abuse (all types) • Chronic & enduring childhood illness • Cognitive assessments • Contact disputes • Child development • Domestic violence • Foster placements • Gender identity disorder • Learning disabilities • Mental capacity • Mental health • Multicultural & multiracial families • Non-accidental injuries & child death • Parents in prison • Risk behaviours (injury to self & others) • Sexual abuse • Sexualised behaviour • Sibling relationships • Trauma • Implacable hostility • Young people (U18) who have...
Dr Shaw-Smith in EXETER
Expertise in clinical genetics, especially: • Connective tissue disorders, including Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta • Chromosome disorders • Congenital malformation syndromes • I have received training in medico-legal report writing from Bond Solon • More than 100 reports completed to date, all within deadline and budget • Academic clinical geneticist with around 50 research papers mainly on genetics of congenital malformation syndromes Initial contact by e-mail only
Professor Stein in LONDON
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...
Dr Alu in CROYDON
Developmental paediatrics • All aspects of safeguarding children and child protection, including physical abuse, child sexual abuse, neglect, fabricated and induced illness and perplexing presentations.
Dr Pahuja in HAMPTON
Special interest in: • Respiratory and chronic lung diseases of newborns • Feeding and nutrition • Immunisation • Growth and developmental assessment • Gastrointestinal problems
Dr Suri in ROTHERHAM
Dr Sanjay Suri has a total of 35 years’ experience with expertise in neuro-disability. His neuro-disability expertise includes cerebral palsy, spina bifida, genetic syndromes, sensory deficits, global developmental delay and autism. He has 20 years' experience in medico-legal work and attended the Bond Solon expert witness report writing course in 2022. He has also participated in a mini-pupillage and courtroom skills course in the past. He has provided reports for safeguarding cases, coroners inquests and...
Dr Kapoor in SHEFFIELD
Diagnosing and treating paediatric gastrointestinal disorders • Conducting endoscopic procedures in children • Managing nutritional issues in paediatric patients • Providing consultation on digestive health • Developing treatment plans for paediatric digestive conditions All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.
Professor Ng OBE in ORMSKIRK
I hold dual accreditation as Consultant Paediatrician and Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist. I have a Master of Laws degree from the University of Liverpool. I have undergone medico-legal expert training courses and attended court with expertise in general paediatric and paediatric endocrinology cases (25% claimant, 25% defendant, 50% joint). I have provided 100+ medico-legal reports in all aspects of paediatric endocrinology and diabetes, child protection, road traffic accident and clinical negligence....
Dr Spoto in LONDON
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
Dr Ogbureke in DARTFORD
I have been practising paediatrics for over 25 years (21 years as a consultant). I am vastly experienced in the management of complex medical and social paediatric problems. I currently work as a Consultant Paediatrician in an NHS hospital. I am interested in providing expertise in the following areas: general paediatrics, safeguarding/child protection, cerebral palsy, neonatal intensive care, inpatient care, paediatric emergency care, care of the newborn infant and child development.
Dr Wiener in WATFORD
Child psychiatry • Adolescent psychiatry All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.
Dr Thorley in LEICESTER
Assessment & diagnosis of children, adolescents & young adults • Treatment of mental health problems • Expertise in the effects of personal injury & medical negligence • Neuropsychological assessment of brain injuries in children • Domiciliary visits also possible nationwide
Ms Hopkins in RICKMANSWORTH
Food intolerance - dietary recommendations • Failure to thrive - paediatrics • Enteral feeding - adult & paediatrics • Nutritional requirements - adult & paediatrics • Diet & obesity • Nutritional assessment • Feeding problems • Obesity in children • Dysphagia problems • Dietary assessment • Dysphagia problems - children • Feeding problems - cerebral palsy • Poor growth - children
Dr Mallen in NORWICH
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...