Preparing medico-legal reports for assessment of personal injuries (general accidents, road traffic accidents, accidents at work) • Medico-legal reports on disability & trauma resulting from injury & orthopaedic problems due to accidents • Whiplash, muscle & limb injuries • Back injuries • Mr Barabas does not undertake medical negligence cases

1. Cargo damage 2. Navigation and shipping accidents 3. Contract disputes in oil and gas 4. Shipbuilding and maintenance disputes 5. Ship management and charter party disputes 6. Bunkering and ship supply 7. Bill of lading disputes 8. Ship recycling disputes 9. Port operations 10. Port maritime services 11. Goods transportation on land 12. Cargo clearance and customs 13. Investment in maritime assets

Mechanical engineering • Asset management • Pressure vessels • Pressure systems • Lifting equipment and lifting operations • Safety of amusement rides • Safety of fairground rides • Machinery guarding • Movable bridges • Steel industry • Water pumping stations • Bulk handling equipment • Marine engineering • Mechanical lifting equipment • Lock gates • Power hydraulics • Industrial engineering

Consultant Forensic Engineer & expert witness undertaking the investigation of engineering incidents & personal injury accidents for commercial, legal & insurance clients • Provision of independent & impartial expert witness evidence • Mechanical, metallurgical & non-metallic materials (i.e. polymer, composite, rubber, glass & ceramic materials) based investigations • Forensic investigations both on-site & laboratory based • Component failure analysis, including expertise in fractography & electron microscopy (SEM) •...

Escapes of water, oil and gas • Composites • Glass and ceramics • Plastics and polymers • Construction injuries • Falls from height • Noise and vibration injuries • Lifting operations • Collision reconstruction

Expert witness and forensic investigation services relating to civil engineering failures and disputes. Areas of expertise include: • Collapse of steel, masonry and reinforced concrete structures and buildings • Construction site, workplace and other health and safety investigations, including the review of responsibilities under CDM, risk assessments and safe systems of work • Wind-induced collapses • Failure of retaining walls • Roof collapses • Structural damage • Review of structural strengthening and remedial...

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

Lifts, escalators & machinery • Criminal, civil & coroners courts • Personal injury • Design & regulatory compliance • LOLER & PUWER, & CDM regulations • Accident & failure investigation • Construction & maintenance contracts • NHS HTM08-02 AE lifts • Quantum assessment • Landlord & tenant & dilapidations • PFI contract disputes including handback assessment, condition reporting & quantum • Arbitration • Adjudication • Mediation • Expert determination & negotiation • 47 years' experience as a contractor engineer, manager & consulting...

Specialist areas of expertise: • Lifts • Escalators • Cable cars • Funiculars • Window cleaning apparatus • General lifting & handling plant • Rent reviews • Experienced in: • Personal injury & fatality investigations • Disputes over suitability & standards of workmanship • Professional negligence • Giving evidence in court Membership of professional bodies • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (Past Chairman of Lift Committee) • International Association of Elevator Engineers • Fellow of the Institute...

Inspection of all types of motor vehicles for litigation purposes • Motorcycles, motor cars, sport, classics, electric vehicles, LGV, motor homes, caravans, PSV, HGV, horseboxes & trailers • Petrol & diesel engine component failure diagnosis, automatic gearboxes, manual gearboxes • Motor vehicle theft • Fire-damaged vehicles • Corrosion & paintwork faults • Repossession inspections • Unroadworthy vehicles • Lectures on automotive engineering • SJE • Legal aid work undertaken • Assistance at trial • Founder Member of the Society...

Available for instructions in the field of adult and paediatric emergency medicine. This generally includes cases where clients have been seen and assessed in a UK emergency department. I am competent to accept instructions with regards to alleged breach of duty where the expertise is specific to adult and paediatric emergency medicine, and some enquiries in relation to causation where the condition in question relates to adult and paediatric emergency medicine practice. I am a university-certified expert...

Inadequate nursing care • Public health - health visiting care • Nursing home care • Inadequate community nursing care • Sepsis • Drug errors • Pressure ulcers • Inadequate nursing supervision and neglect • Manual handling injuries • Falls • Inadequate nursing clinical observations

Lifts, escalators, platforms & lifting machinery • Criminal, civil, commercial, personal injury, design & regulatory compliance • Assessment • Accident & failure investigation • Construction & maintenance contracts • Landlord & tenant disputes • Advice on LOLER, PUWER, Supply of Machinery (Safety) Regulations & CDM • Competent person under LOLER • Authorised engineer (lifts) for numerous NHS Trusts • Member of BCO Technical Committee (Vertical Transportation) & Principal Designer under CDM • 37 years working in lift industry,...

Trauma & orthopaedics • Shoulder, elbow, hand & wrist • Sports injury, including knee injury • Personal injury claims in road traffic accidents & workplace injury, including whiplash injury

Medico-legal work since 2003 • APIL-approved First-Tier Medical Expert • MedCo Accredited Orthopaedic Expert • Bond Solon Certified Civil Expert • Member of Expert Witness Institute Specialist in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery with special interest in Trauma and Arthroplasty of the Knee & Hip • Shoulder arthroscopic surgery Medico-legal practice in the following: • Road traffic accident • Personal injury • Fractures of upper & lower limbs in adults & children • Pelvic fractures • Whiplash injury & back pain • Work-related injuries •...

Escapes of water, oil and gas • Mechanical engineering • Building fires • Explosions • Vehicle, plant and machinery fires • White goods appliance fires • Composites • Glass and ceramics • Plastics and polymers • Manual handling

Rotating equipment • Packaged equipment • Machinery damage assessments • Mechanical and piping systems • MEP, oil, gas, power, petrochemical and energy transition • Pipelines • Wind turbine generators • Gearboxes • Pumps • Compressors • Diesel generators • Gas turbines • Air coolers • Heat exchangers • Heaters • HVAC • Pressure vessels • Valves • Lifting equipment • Asset integrity • LNG • LPG • Offshore • Cost estimates • Accident investigation • Root cause analysis • Contract management • Tendering • Procurement

Ergonomic assessments of: • Work-related upper limb disorders (WRULD) • Repetitive strain injuries (RSI) • Manual handling accidents • Back injury cases • Human factors • Human error • Safety critical tasks • Safety management systems • Noise • Asbestos • Whole body vibration • Hand-arm vibration • Vibration white finger • Accident investigation • COMAH • Safety design • Patient safety • Product design • COSHH • Slips, trips and falls • Musculoskeletal disorder • Display screen equipment • Assembly work • Cumulative trauma disorder We can also be contacted...

Investigation of industrial accidents • Preparation of detailed court reports supported by photographs & plans • Manual handling • Upper limb disorders • Falls & falling objects • Slipping & tripping • Machinery • Noise & deafness • Component failures

Consultant Forensic Mechanical & Materials Engineer & expert witness (practising since 1997, 18 years with Dr J H Burgoyne & Partners LLP (Burgoynes), 9 of which as a partner) • Forensic mechanical engineering-based investigations • Forensic metallurgical based investigations • Forensic polymer/non-metallic materials based investigations • Forensic component failure analysis, including expertise in fractography & electron microscopy • Forensic investigations into the cause of damage to equipment & machinery • Forensic...

Safety strategy and high-level policies • Hazard identification • Hazard assessment - qualitative and quantitative • ALARP • Safety integrity targeting • Safety integrity verification • Safety measure implementation, adequacy and assurance • Safety validation • Safety justification of complex equipment • Safety procedures/process development • Safety indicators/safety monitoring and reaction to events • Accident/incident investigation

We have a team of 12 experts who prepare care and occupational therapy–quantum reports for: • Children and adults • Physical disabilities • Acquired brain injury • Spinal cord injuries • Cerebral palsy • Traumatic injuries • Autism and challenging behaviour

Mechanical and electrical engineering systems (M & E) • LOLER Thorough Examinations • PSSR Thorough Examinations and written schemes • PUWER inspection • COSHH Thorough Examination and test • Agricultural equipment, including telescopic handlers and front loaders • Mobile elevating work platforms • Pressure systems, including major, intermediate and minor • Regulatory compliance engineering • Loss control engineering • Accident investigation • Equipment failure investigations • Material failure • Technical due diligence • Health and safety...

Occupational health & safety • Noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) • Noise surveys • Ergonomics & manual handling • Slipping accident investigation • Ladders & scaffolding • Cranes & lifting equipment • Play areas & equipment • Machine tools • Workshops • Machine guarding • Bearings • Consumer product defects • Consumer product safety • CE marking & product compliance • Helmets • Personal protective equipment (PPE) • Laser safety • Non-ionising radiation • Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) & electromagnetic interference (EMI)

Investigation of industrial & leisure accidents of almost every kind • Preparation of detailed court reports supported by photographs & plans • Manufacturing plant & machinery • Sports, play & leisure • Slips, trips & falls • Manual handling • Woodworking machinery • Work-related upper limb disorders • Consumer product defects • Noise & deafness • Construction work • Fork-lift trucks • Agricultural machinery • Road traffic accidents • Ladders & scaffolding • Fires & explosions • Welding • Hand-arm vibration syndrome

Simon Russett is a European Engineer and a Chartered Engineer with over 37 years of experience since 1986 in the vertical transportation industry as a lift and escalator technical expert. He holds a Master of Science postgraduate degree in Lift Engineering awarded by Northampton University. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers and the Institute of Engineering and Technology. He is a member of the Council for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, the British Council for Offices...

Complex disability • Neuro-disability • Pressure ulcer • Postural management • Continence • Orthopaedics • Loss of service HCPC Registration OT20887

Very experienced practitioner specialising in health & safety/food safety matters since 1988, including 9 years as an enforcement officer • Particular areas of expertise include investigation of workplace injuries & fatalities, risk assessment, risk management & insurance-related matters • Further expertise as a Chartered Environmental Health Practitioner with respect to food contamination, HACCP, food processing, alleged food poisoning & food-borne injury Author of Food Emergencies - A Practical Approach to...

Occupational safety & health representation • Accident/incident investigation • Risk assessment & analysis • Management systems • Safe work systems • Human factors • Engineering failures • Compliance • Due diligence • Expert witness • COVID 19 risk assessment, audit & compliance checking • Review of systematic failures and consequences investigation.

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

Particular expertise: adult only • Traumatic injuries, however caused • Medical emergency events • Application of computing to emergency medicine • Still & video image analysis • Environmental medicine, particularly hypothermia & heat-related illness • Medical negligence by carers & procedural errors

Mechanical engineering • Mechanical failure • Product failure • Pneumatic engineering • Hydraulic engineering • Automotive engineering • Personal protective equipment • Classic vehicles • Accident investigation: agriculture; agricultural machinery and vehicles; construction sites; mechanical; factories; falls, trips and slips; footpaths, pavements, pedestrian; forklift trucks; HGVs; industry; ladders; leisure industry and sports; lifting equipment; lifting; machinery; manufacturing industry; occupational; plant engineering;...

Expertise: • Safety • Accident investigation • Health & Safety at Work Act & Regulations • Personal injury • Fires • Explosions • Risk assessment • Safety management • Occupational accidents • Product safety • Dangerous goods • Falls • Mechanical or structural failure • Machinery Sectors: • Industrial • Construction • Mechanical • Electrical • Manufacturing • Factories • Oil • Gas • Offshore • Chemicals • Pipelines • Railways • Public transport • Ports & docks • Food • Retail • Leisure

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

I undertake quantum care & occupational therapy reports on a wide range of injury types including, but not exclusively: • Amputation • Brain injury • Cauda equina • Cerebral palsy • Chronic pain • Upper limb injury • Incontinence • Injuries from general medical/surgical conditions • Oncology • Orthopaedic conditions • Spinal injury • Strokes • Visual impairment • Sensory loss • Manual handling • Stoma care. I am happy to undertake initial telephone discussions with solicitors to identify if my clinical experience meets their client's needs.

Detailed forensic investigation of accidents, incidents, materials and mechanical failure • Product liability/fitness for purpose • Application of health and safety legislation and associated standards • Hazard identification and assessment of risk • Incorporated Engineer with practical experience in the Lifting Equipment and Lifting Operations Regulations (LOLER) and Pressure Safety Systems Regulations (PSSR) inspection industries • Competent in lifting equipment, work equipment, Machinery Directive and general workplace...

Accident investigation: agriculture; agricultural machinery and vehicles; construction sites; mechanical; factories; falls, trips and slips; footpaths, pavements, pedestrian; forklift trucks; HGVs; industry; ladders; leisure industry and sports; lifting equipment; lifting; machinery; manufacturing industry; occupational; plant engineering; play areas and playgrounds; scaffolding; warehousing industry; welding; woodworking industry Mechanical design • Mechanical appliances • Mechanical engineering, including project...

Experience covers failure investigations on: • Metals: ferrous & non-ferrous • Non-metals: plastics & glass • Welding & fabrication • Lifting equipment, cranes, hoists, chains, nylon slings & hooks • Fire damage • Plant & machinery component failures • Construction materials & components: bolts, rebar, glazing units, etc. • Surface coatings: metallic, organic or thermally sprayed • Non-destructive testing • Historic structures & materials: bronze, cast iron & wrought iron • Corrosion problems: inland & marine • Marine failures:...

Accident investigation: • Industry & industrial premises • Construction & building • Docks • Agriculture • Transport & road traffic; highway • Offices & shops • Hospitals & nursing homes • Education • Sport & leisure • Domestic • Mechanical engineering: • Machinery defects & disputes • Cranes & lifting equipment • Papermaking machinery • Boiler plant & steam ancillaries • Mechanical handling equipment, including fork-lifts • Consumer product defects • Safety design • Machine tools • Manufacturing engineering & processes • Hydraulic engineering • Pneumatic...

We accept instructions from prosecutors, appellants, defendants and claimants in criminal and civil work on most health and safety topics. Our expertise extends to manufacturing and service industries, construction, commercial, offices, education, entertainment, local government, health services, retail, fairgrounds, public works, airports, Crown services and utilities. Topics include: • Work at height • Systems of work • Safety documentation • Risk assessment • Guarding of machinery • Works transport • Lifting operations •...

Interaction of Bath is a registered ergonomics consultancy, competent to accept instruction in all areas of ergonomics and human factors. We have many years' experience of reporting for the courts on: • musculoskeletal injury from manual handling • computer modelling of falls, brawls and knife attacks • risk assessment of industrial tasks • repetitive strain injury • visual conspicuity of road users. Our reports are always concise, clear and correct.

Whiplash & road traffic accidents • Fractures of the ankle, knee, elbow & shoulder joint • Fractures in children • Soft tissue injuries • Sports & sprain injuries • Back injuries • Hand & industrial injuries • Shoulder, elbow & wrist injuries

I accept instructions from defendants and claimants via solicitors on most health and safety topics. I have particular experience in health and safety legislation, fatal accident investigation, manufacturing, construction, banking, education, healthcare, charity, retail and pharmaceuticals. My skills include: risk assessment, training, work at height, fall prevention, safe systems of work, safety documentation and policies, fire safety and protection, COSHH, manual handling and work equipment.

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

Hugh Gray is a Consultant Engineer with over 25 years' experience. His main area of expertise is lifts, escalators and window cleaning equipment design. Hugh has hands-on lift experience and started with the installation and maintenance of lifts. Since 1993 his main area of work has been lift statutory inspections and lift consultancy. The sectors covered are residential, retail, commercial, transport, health care and social housing. Hugh is based between his London and Manchester offices providing full UK...

Personal injury & fatal accidents, including: • Falling, tripping & slipping accidents • Workplace hazards • Machinery hazards • Manual handling, lifting & repetitive strain injury • Industry hazards • Cranes, lifts & forklift truck accidents • Domestic hazards • Commercial premises hazards & accidents • Sports & leisure accidents & hazards • Fairground & playground accidents • Musculoskeletal injury & diseases • Industrial products, including: • Defective equipment • Equipment failures • Product liability disputes • Product defects & injuries •...

Exposure assessment and control of chemical, physical and biological agents • Personal protective equipment requirement, selection, use and management • Risk assessment • Health and safety management systems • Incident investigation • Manual handling • Asbestos exposure

Expert in medico-legal reporting, with particular interest in whiplash injuries, sports injuries & general disabilities • Clinical negligence

• Accommodation • Architecture • Bespoke Homes Jonathan France Dip FCIAT AssocRICS, is a Fellow of the CIAT (Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists), an associate member of RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), an Affiliate Member of the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and is conversant with the recommended and regulatory provisions for accessible and inclusive housing. Jonathan France is a Chartered Architectural Designer who has been working in architecture and design since...

• 14 years’ experience as a qualified nurse. • 7 years as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner and expert in falls and falls prevention. Significant experience and expertise in the management of deteriorating and acutely unwell patients in secondary care. Experience advising on medicolegal matters over the past 12 months. Available to advise on matters pertaining to these areas and other areas of nursing care, particularly care of the elderly and care of the acutely unwell patient. Falls - prevention • Post falls...

Areas of speciality are neurological & musculoskeletal (orthopaedic) rehabilitation of both adults & children • Injuries include spinal & head injuries • Cerebral palsy • Orthopaedic conditions • Quantum & negligence reports to include care requirements, physiotherapy provision, aids, appliance & equipment needs, rehabilitation cost reports, hydrotherapy reports & negligence reports