Cultural expertise on Afghanistan and Pakistan • Forensic verification of questioned documents from Afghanistan and Pakistan • Authentication of documents issued in Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Pashto, Urdu • Language analysis to determine origin and nationality • Forensic linguistic authentication and authorship analysis • Expertise of human rights, safety, internal relocation, protection matters and access to treatment

I have expertise and first-hand experience of compiling expert witness reports and consultancy services, focusing on the people and countries of East and Horn of Africa (i.e. Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan) for legal firms as well as courts and other clients across the UK/West/Africa in the following areas/fields: • Families and minority refugee community members (e.g. domestic disputes and wider conflicts, exploitations and modern-day slavery, cultural intersections and problems of relationships with partners...

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...

• Consultant Chartered Clinical and Health Psychologist (BPS) • Registered Practitioner Psychologist (HCPC) • Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (BABCP) I have been qualified for over 25 years largely working in NHS adult services within the specialities of mental health, health psychology and physical rehabilitation/pain management - taking a lead role in service development and innovation. I currently work in private practice and I am the Managing Director of an independent psychological consultancy,...

Country researcher for Middle East and North African countries • Country reports • Document authentication • Disputed nationality • Dialect analysis • Forensic document authentication services (handwriting, tampering, alterations and translation) • Civil society in the Gulf • Islamist movements • Militia groups and radicalisation • Conflict and peacebuilding • Religious and ethnic minorities • Geopolitical trends and regional security • Diaspora and refugees • Human rights issues and modes of governance in the Middle East • LGBTQ and...

Adult personality disorder • Adult mental health • Impact of alcohol and drug misuse • Adult attachment style • Trauma • Adverse childhood experiences • Relationship issues and family dynamics, including impact of domestic violence and/or substance misuse • Psychopathology in adults • Parenting (including therapeutic and support needs of parents, prospect of change and the likely timescale for that change) • Personal injury • Risk of violence • Risk of sexual violence

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

All matters pertaining to adult general psychiatry • Special interest in drug- & alcohol-related issues & those involving putative automatism • Experience in assessing perpetrators of sexual abuse • Regular involvement in the assessment of adults in family psychiatry • Regular involvement in the assessment & diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder

I am a consultant general adult and forensic psychiatrist. My name is on the Specialist Register. I have provided expert witness services for over 40 years. I regularly receive instructions from solicitors, regulatory bodies, local authorities and others in relation to legal proceedings - criminal, civil and tribunal proceedings. I have received accredited training and have been an accredited trainer.