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Expert Witness and Medico-Legal Reports
We prepare high-quality expert witness and medico-legal reports for solicitors, barristers, courts and tribunal services on behalf of claimants, defendants or on a joint instructional basis.
Due to our extensive experience, we’re able to anticipate your needs, and we ensure all reports carry a high level of clarity in their recommendations.
When producing a report, we’ll take instructions from you directly and provide appropriate guidance when needed. You will be able to liaise with our clinicians directly instead of having to communicate through case managers.
Our medical secretaries can help you find a medico-legal expert with the right skills and experience for your case.
Fees and timescales for reports:
You can begin the process quickly and easily by simply giving us a phone call. Our experienced team can guide you through the information required to determine the fees involved and the timescale required for the report.
We understand the immediacy required for many of these reports and endeavour to meet your expectations by working within urgent deadlines and in a flexible manner. We will always provide specific timelines for the delivery of your reports.
Once you contact us, we can begin managing the process of obtaining your report quickly and efficiently, including liaison between the relevant parties, courts and commissioners of reports.
What types of reports can we prepare?
We provide expert witness medico-legal reports relating to neuropsychological health, diagnostic clarity, causation, condition and prognosis. Our experts produce reports for all types of legal procedures and courts of law, including the Magistrates’ and Crown Courts, Court of Appeal, Court of Protection, Criminal Courts, Family Courts, the Parole Board, civil proceedings and employment tribunals.
Reports for criminal courts:
- Fitness to plead and stand trial
- Pre-sentencing reports
- Hospital orders
- Parole board assessments
- Mental health review panels
- Evaluation of morbidity and risk.
Reports for civil proceedings, courts of protection and family law courts:
- Testamentary capacity
- Mental capacity
- Diminished responsibility
- Family and child protection matters
- Mental Health Act
- Clinical negligence
- Fitness to practice
- Treatment focussed assessments
- Assessment of brain injury
- Personal injury claims
Reports for Employment and Mental Health Review Tribunals:
- Assessment of causation, prognosis and long term needs
- Assessments for mental health review tribunals
Special areas of expertise:
- Addiction
- Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Alcohol-related brain damage
- Anxiety and anxiety-related disorders
- Assessments for hospital disposal from the court
- Autism spectrum disorders
- Bipolar disorder
- Brain injury
- Capacity assessments
- Complex mental capacity assessments
- Complex functional neurological conditions
- Depression
- Dysthymia
- Eating disorders
- Employment tribunals
- Medical Negligence
- Neuropsychiatry
- Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Panic disorder
- Personality disorder
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Psychosis (delusional disorder, drug-induced psychosis, schizoaffective disorder, schizophrenia and treatment-resistant psychosis)
- Self-harm
- Social phobia
- Somatoform disorders
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Work-related stress and occupational mental health difficulties
Our Medico-Legal Experts:
Dr Srinivas Lanka
Areas of expertise:
- General Adult psychiatry
- Neuropsychiatry
- Forensic Neuropsychiatry
Dr Srinivas Lanka is a Private Consultant Neuropsychiatrist who provides treatment for a wide range of general psychiatric, neurodevelopmental, neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative mental health conditions. Dr Lanka has been involved in medicolegal practice since 2014, during which time Dr Lanka has compiled over 200 reports, with an average of 40 reports per year in addition to his clinical practice.
Dr Lanka has experience providing evidence in Criminal Courts, Court of Protection, family courts, employment tribunals, mental health review tribunals and civil proceedings. Due to his professional experience in medical management and service lead positions, he understands the complex commissioning structures and varied funding streams that dictate the individual’s treatment provision. This knowledge ensures he correctly identifies the best clinical care and service available to address the individual in question’s needs, efficiently and speedily.
Dr Guy Hillman
Areas of expertise:
- General Adult psychiatry
- Medical Psychotherapy
- Forensic psychiatry
Dr Guy Hillman is a Private Consultant Psychiatrist with specialist training in Forensic Psychiatry and Medical Psychotherapy. Dr Hillman has almost two decades of clinical experience and has held multiple leadership and teaching positions, both in his clinical workplace and nationally. He collaborated on the National Strategy for Forensic Psychotherapy Reference Group and Forensic Psychotherapy Special Interest Group with the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He has developed clinical guidelines for improved care pathways both for local services and nationally with Her Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service and also the Home Office. He has also presented on practical, ethical and medico-legal issues at international conferences.
Dr Hillman specialises in explaining complex psychiatric formulations and ideas to a lay audience. He has extensive expert witness experience consulting for legal professionals and giving evidence to the Courts, including the Central Criminal Court (The Old Bailey) and the Court of Appeal.
Dr Jonathan Garabette
Areas of expertise:
- General Adult psychiatry
- Psychotherapy
- Forensic psychiatry
Dr Jonathan Garabette is a Private Consultant Psychiatrist and Medical Psychotherapist who provides treatment using psychiatry, pharmacology, and psychology-based approaches. He has specialist experience in forensic psychiatry and frequently acts as an expert witness for the courts.
