Medico-legal

Medico-legal psychological reports.

Independent assessment and expert reports for solicitors, insurers and statutory bodies, in adult matters.

Areas of work

  • Personal injury and psychological trauma
  • Road traffic and workplace incidents
  • Medical events and alleged clinical negligence
  • Trauma, mood and anxiety presentations
  • Cognitive and neurodevelopmental questions, where relevant
  • Capacity and other focused assessments, where within scope

Instructions are conflict-checked and scoped before acceptance. If a question falls outside Clinical Psychology, you will be told before any work begins.

What to expect

Review of the records supplied, clinical interview, standardised measures where relevant, and a report that answers each question in the letter of instruction. The evidence for each opinion is set out, and its limits are stated.

Independence.

Accepting an instruction does not mean the report will support the instructing party's position. The opinion follows the evidence, and reports are prepared in keeping with the expert's duty to the court.

Criminal courts

Forensic psychological reports

Independent psychological assessment and expert reports for criminal proceedings, including pre-sentence psychological reports, structured risk assessment and assessment of fitness to plead where clinically appropriate.