Forensic Equity is a leading provider of forensic science services. With well over 1,000 years of combined experience, our forensic scientists cover all of the major forensic disciplines. All of our services and fee rates are suitable for legal aid applicants. We are always happy to receive case papers and will assess them and provide an initial opinion without charge. Accounting Mark Holdsworth FMAAT CFE MAE Robert Miller BSc(Hons) FCA MAE Biology Nigel Hodge BSc BTh DipPS John Page BA MSBiol CBiol PGDipSciSoc...

Personal injury: • PTSD • Depression • Chronic pain & medically unexplained symptoms • Exacerbation of pre-existing mental illness • Traumatic brain injury • Neuropsychiatry • Criminal: • Fitness to plead • Mens rea assessments • Drug & alcohol assessments • CICA assessments • Family: • Parental mental health assessments • Personality disorders • Drug & alcohol assessments • Employment: • Disability & discrimination • Disciplinary proceedings • Assessments for work • Housing: • Disability & vulnerability due to mental illness • Capacity: • Testamentary...

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

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

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 & hearing adults in relation to child care proceedings; presence/absence of a learning disability & the impact of this ( & /or...

Traumatic brain & spinal injuries • Clinical & occupational neurology • Disability assessment • Neurological rehabilitation • Cerebrovascular disease: intracranial aneurysms, AVMs, TIA & stroke services, thrombolysis for acute stroke • Sport-related injuries, especially concussion & spinal injuries • Military medicine & defence medical rehabilitation • War pensions & armed forces compensation Also consulting in Nottingham & Bristol Correspondence address: Hardie Medico-Legal Services, Foxhall Lodge, Foxhall Road, Nottingham,...

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

Clinical forensic medicine (general) • Clinical forensic medicine - wounding • Road Traffic Act (alcohol & drugs) • Traffic medicine • Police complaints • Custody medicine • Trauma • Assault • ABH • GBH • Assessment of victims of torture • Interpretation of scarring • Sexual assault & sexual offences medicine • Cardiff University Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate (Criminal Law) by examination 2015 Additional website: http://www.medical-expert.net

All areas of general practice medicine • Clinical negligence in general practice

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 •...

Michael John Lynch is a seasoned technology expert with over 15 years of experience in microelectronics, electrical engineering and wearable technology. He specialises in the design, development and testing of advanced hardware and software systems. Michael John offers comprehensive expert advice, consultancy and expert witness services, frequently supporting due diligence efforts and intellectual property development. Expertise Wearable Technology & Smart Textiles • Smart fabrics and E-textiles • Wearable...

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

General management of long bone fractures • Sports, exercise and biomechanical medicine

I am a chartered physiotherapist. I am happy to accept instruction for clinical negligence breach of duty and other legal cases. I have been a physiotherapy lecturer since 1997. I am an internationally published author, having written ten textbooks translated into eleven languages. My expertise is patient assessment and management, ethics and professional practice, rheumatology, orthopaedics and soft tissue injury management. I am a publishing consultant for Elsevier publishers Oxford. I hold a PhD in exercise...

• Preparation of high-quality medical reports offering a holistic approach to cover all medical, psychological and mental health concerns • Fluent in English, Bengali, Sylheti, Urdu and Hindi languages • Specialist interest in UK immigration cases • Reports for visa application, deportation, asylum seekers, disability, vulnerability and memory issues • Understand cultural and country differences of various regions, including Asia, Africa, Middle East, Eastern European • Effects of removal on subjects to country...

Probably the most sought-after expert in his field. Instructed in claimant, defendant and criminal cases for Home Office, Ministry of Justice, Government Legal Department, Prison Officers Association and other firms of solicitors • Experienced in single joint expert instructions and giving evidence at inquests • Expert in all aspects of self-defence, physical restraint, personal safety and martial arts, including control and restraint systems taught to police, prison, hospital (including secure), schools and...

Since 1993 I have provided assessments & consultations on a variety of criminal & civil matters, including: • Assessments of personal injury following road traffic & industrial accidents • Adjustment disorder • Pain disorder • Assessments of neuropsychological functioning • Assessments of suggestibility & fitness to plead • All aspects of family law • Emphasis is given to presenting the complexities of the clinical situation with sufficient clarity so that it may be understood within a legal framework whilst simultaneously...

Medical negligence • Diabetes • General (internal) medicine • Life expectancy • Mortality • Quantum

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

Clinical forensic medicine, general • Clinical forensic medicine, sexual abuse • Clinical forensic medicine, wounding • Fitness to be detained • Fitness to be interviewed • Road Traffic Act (drink/drugs & driving) • Police complaints • Trauma • Assault Additional emails: [email protected] [email protected]

• Director and Clinical Gerontologist, Foundation for Diabetes Research in Older People (FDROP) • Visiting Professor in Diabetes Care, King's College, London WHO-recognised expert in older people, frailty and diabetes • Care home medicine and pressure sore care • Geriatric medicine • Diabetes mellitus • Older people • Frailty • Dementia • Stroke illness • General medicine • Hypoglycaemia • Fitness to Stand Trial assessments • Member of Faculty of Expert Witnesses Happy to undertake face-to-face assessment in client home, legal...

• 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 •...

BioMark Forensics arranges experts for the legal profession, including in legally aided cases. Our Case Manager has over 30 years’ experience in forensics, including as an expert herself, so we understand the system and what is needed. The experts we provide have many years’ experience in their respective fields, produce comprehensive reports and are proficient at Court. Evidence covered includes: • Alcohol back calculations • Audio evidence • Blood pattern analysis • CCTV evidence • Collision investigation • Computer...

Cardiovascular diseases: CAD, heart attacks, angina • Heart failure: chronic, acute • Arrhythmias: atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, bradycardia • Hypertension: essential, secondary • Valvular heart diseases: aortic stenosis, mitral regurgitation • Congenital: structural defects, patent ductus arteriosus • Cardiac surgery: post-operative issues • Imaging: echocardiograms, MRI/CT • Risk: pre-operative evaluations • Medication: efficacy, side effects • Negligence: care standards • Fitness: work capacity All correspondence...

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

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...

Brain injury • Assessment of capacity • Neuropsychological assessment & rehabilitation • Neuropsychological assessment of dementia & other neurological disorders • Post-traumatic stress disorder • Post-traumatic stress disorder in brain injury • Criminal responsibility in brain injury • Fitness to plead • Personal injury

Dr Mian has a broad scope of clinical experience delivering general practice, accruing substantial inpatient and outpatient dermatology experience to establish proficiency using a dermatoscope to diagnose skin lesions and regularly managing a wide range of complex skin conditions. She also has RCGP-accredited training relating to nutrition, allergy, exercise and lifestyle medicine.

Clinics at London, Reigate, Guildford, Leatherhead, Southampton & Portsmouth. Consultations for medico-legal services in care homes and in individuals' homes may also be possible when based on clinical needs. Also available for travel throughout the UK and abroad. • Neuropsychology expert • Assessment of cognitive & emotional functioning using psychometric & neuropsychological objective assessments & by clinical interview • Known or suspected brain injury • Neuropsychiatric conditions • Neurodegenerative conditions,...

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...

Independent Chartered Neurological Physiotherapist specialising in the management of adults with complex neurological conditions • Traumatic and acquired brain injury management and rehabilitation, including equipment • Spinal cord injury management and rehabilitation, including equipment • Aquatic physiotherapy/hydrotherapy

Medico-legal assessments of children and young people and their families in public law (care proceedings - Single Joint Expert) • Medical negligence, negligence by public bodies, personal injury and coroner's inquests in children and young people • Reports in investigations by regulatory bodies • Youth offending: assessment for ADHD, autism, dangerousness, fitness to plead

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)

Orthogeriatrics • Peri-operative complications/death • Dementia • Frailty • Osteoporosis • Medical negligence • Decisions on escalation/resuscitation • Ethical decisions on elderly patients • Inappropriate testing/medicalisation • Breaches in communication • Fitness to stand trial for older patients • Safeguarding situations • Coroner cases • Case reviews involving older, frail patients

General medical practice • Sports and exercise medicine • Emergency medicine • Musculoskeletal ultrasound • Research and academic roles • Health promotion and rehabilitation • Consultative services All correspondence to: British Medical Experts, 13 Park Terrace, Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, SA31 3DG.

I have provided expert reports since 2012 on the costs of providing care in personal injury and clinical negligence cases. I support a team of associate experts who prepare expert reports on care, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. Specialist interest in spinal injury, brain injury, cerebral palsy, amputation, complex orthopaedic injury, cauda equina and functional neurological disorder. • Clinical negligence cases, personal injury, causation reports • Occupational therapy • Manual handling • Postural management

Medico-legal reports concerning all aspects of general medical practice • Medical records • Medical ethics • Medical disputes • Personal injury, including road traffic accident & whiplash injuries • Falling, tripping & slipping accidents • Medico-legal aspects of circumcision • Medical competence, accidents & negligence • Prescribing & dispensing errors • Therapeutic misadventure • General medical reports in asylum, refugee & immigration cases • Home & prison visits • Coroner • Death certificates • Inquests • Refugees • Asylum • Immigration...

Occupational medicine • Fitness for work • Occupational pensions • Ill health retirement • Disability assessment • Disability discrimination • Working with CFS/ME • Working with fibromyalgia & chronic widespread pain • Working with back pain • Working with chronic pain • Working with complex regional pain syndrome

Accident • Assault • Injury • Trauma • Wounding • Personal injury • Torture • Tasers • Medical negligence • Road Traffic Act (drink/drug drive fitness) • Drug & alcohol misuse • Clinical forensic medicine • Fitness to detain • Fitness to be interviewed • Forensic & legal medicine • Deaths in custody • Harm in custody • Miscarriages of justice • Death investigation • Sexual assault • Death in custody • Care in custody • Police complaints • Nutrition • Venous access • Thrombophlebitis • Assessment of post-mortem stomach contents • Self-inflicted injury Professor Payne-James...

Psychiatric reports for persons detained in secure conditions • Gender-specific (especially female) psychiatric issues • Reports for Mental Health Review Tribunals • Mental Health Act 1983 assessments • Psychiatric reports in criminal & civil cases • Assessment of: fire-setting behaviour, homicide cases, insanity, fitness to plead, sexual offending, violent offending • Assessment for: claims for sexual abuse, child custody cases, testamentary capacity

Cardiovascular disease • Echocardiography • Stress echo • Aviation medicine • Civil aviation cardiologist Additional contact details: [email protected] Mobile Tel: 07740 184203 http://www.spirehealthcare.com

As former Chief Pilot with a major UK airline, Chris has wide experience in flight operations, pilot recruitment, training and remuneration. Currently a Type Rating Instructor and Examiner on Boeing 787 'Dreamliner' aircraft, he is also an active light aircraft and seaplane pilot. Chris is an experienced expert witness - certificated by, and a Governor and Fellow of, the Expert Witness Institute - and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society. He is also a 1st tier APIL expert and is winner of the prestigious...

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...

Neuropsychological assessments • Parenting assessments • Assessment of cognitive & intellectual abilities • Sexual abuse & risk assessments • Mental health & mental capacity assessments • Disability assessments • Drug use & addiction • Occupational stress & depression • Offender assessment & fitness to plead • Performance & fitness to work assessments • Equality, diversity & human rights • Recruitment & selection • Children Act • Employment Tribunals • Unfair dismissal • Expertise working with black & minority ethnic communities • Personal...

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...

HCPC registered • Protected titles: Chartered Psychologist, Clinical Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, Occupational Psychologist • In private practice since 1980 • Provided psychological reports & expert testimony in civil & criminal cases in the UK, the USA & Bermuda • Experience in: criminal law, personal injury, prison law, employment matters, immigration, child & family matters, & educational needs

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.

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

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...

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,...

Traumatic brain & spinal injuries • Clinical & occupational neurology • Disability assessment • Neurological rehabilitation • Cerebrovascular disease: intracranial aneurysms, AVMs, TIA & stroke services, thrombolysis for acute stroke • Sport-related injuries, especially concussion & spinal injuries • Military medicine & defence medical rehabilitation • War pensions & armed forces compensation Also consulting in Bristol & Harley Street, London

All aspects of general adult and forensic psychiatry

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.

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)...

Oxford Medico Legal • Medico-legal examinations, reports & expert opinions, consultancy & educational services in clinical forensic & general medical practice in the British & Irish jurisdictions. Dr Wilkinson is a Registered Medical Practitioner and General Practitioner in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. He is a Forensic Physician, Tutor in Legal Medicine, University of Oxford, Emeritus Lecturer in Forensic & Legal Medicine, University College Dublin. • Forensic Medical Examiner/Sexual Offences...

• Consultant in general adult psychiatry since 1990 • Medical Member of the Mental Health Review Tribunal • Visiting Psychiatrist to Chelmsford Prison 1992-2004 • Long and varied medico-legal experience Reporting regularly to the courts in civil and criminal proceedings on mental health issues in relation to: • Criminal, family and personal injury matters • Clinical negligence • Specific areas of testamentary capacity, fitness to plead and stand trial • Psychological trauma due to accidents, industrial or criminal injury •...

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

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

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...

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

I am able to provide psychological reports that will answer the questions in your letter of instruction. The reports will be written for a legal audience, in plain English, with no psychobabble. All my reports will have clear recommendations and practical advice on how the person being assessed can be helped. I am also an Accredited Civil and Commercial Mediator. Employment Assessment of: • Effects of work-related stress • Effect of alleged stress on employees • Mental health problems at work • Workplace discrimination...

Drug testing • Alcohol test calculations • Toxicological interpretation • Clinical toxicology • Forensic toxicology • Alcohol • Drugs • Drugs & driving • Substance misuse • Drug-facilitated crime • Child custody • Drugs - licit & illicit • Drugs & personal injury • Insurance reports

Dr Sarma has a particular interest in coronary artery and heart valve disease, as well as cardiovascular health improvement. Dr Sarma undertakes a wide range of complex percutaneous (keyhole) procedures, including stenting of narrowed and blocked heart arteries and valve treatments.