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

Areas of expertise: • Liability and reducing restraint, restriction and risk • Control and restraint, behaviour, special schools, pupils, social services, health, children and learning disability • Hazardous behaviour

Key expertise and experience in: • Loss of earnings • Employment matters • Return to work after injury and related wage loss estimates • Particular expertise in return to work after acquired disability and brain injury • Vocational rehabilitation • Functional capacity assessment Can also provide: • Occupational and aptitude assessment • Vocational case management • Wage loss • Counselling

SEND mediation • SEND Statutory Framework • SEND law

Personal injury, road traffic accidents • Accidental injuries • Workplace injuries • Mental health and deafness • Assessment of clients with linguistic differences, i.e. different spoken languages with interpreters • Medico-legal reports on individuals on the autistic spectrum (provides an ASC outpatient clinic) • Reports for industrial tribunals on deafness and tinnitus • Reports for health insurance claims • Fitness to work • Military psychiatry • Remote assessments • Assessments at other venues by negotiation Also at: (i) Business...

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 •...

Mental Health Review Tribunals - assessment of psychological need & risk in relation to individuals detained under the MHA (1983) • Personal injury claims - deaf & hearing clients • Criminal cases: fitness to plead, intellectual ability & impact of deafness, risk assessment & risk management, mental health & deafness • Mental health & trauma • Family/child care proceedings: assessments of deaf adults in relation to child care proceedings; presence/absence of a learning disability & the impact of this (&/or deafness)...

Personal injury, including: • Brain & spinal injuries & birth defects • Employment prospects • Loss of earnings • Loss of opportunity • Labour market analysis • Research service • Employment case management • Vocational rehabilitation • Occupational psychology • Psychometric & occupational testing • Careers advice • Employment practice • Employee retention • Discrimination in employment • Claimant, defendant & single joint instructions undertaken • UK-wide service • Job analysis

Speech, language and communication disorders • Swallowing disorders, eating and drinking, dysphagia management • Children with speech and language delay/disorder • Cerebral palsy • Head injury • Acquired brain injury • Neurological conditions • Stroke/CVA • Voice disorders • Dysfluency/stammering • Young age • Dementia • Head and neck cancers • Brain tumours • Road traffic accidents and personal injuries • Autism, Aspergers, ASD • Learning disabilities and difficulties • Low IQ • Mental health issues • Cognitive issues

Employment • Research & analysis of a claimant's pre- & post-accident employment & earnings prospects • Instructions undertaken as a joint or single party expert • Rehabilitation • HJS's Pathway to Work Programme is a vocational rehabilitation programme which encourages & assists a return to training & work

Report writing in legal instruction cases for care, rehabilitation, training, education and equipment for those with visual impairment of all ages • Report writing in legal instruction cases for care, rehabilitation, training and education for those with physical and mental disabilities