Medico-Legal

Expert Witness Service

Phoenix Psychological Services offers an Expert Witness Service within the medico-legal arena to both civil and criminal justice proceedings.

We are members of the Society of Expert Witnesses and have a number of associates who are experienced and competent expert witnesses in many psychological and health fields across the UK.

Particular areas of medico-legal expertise include:

• Attachment
• Capacity
• Care Proceedings
• Child Abuse
• Cognitive / Intellectual Ability
• Contact Disputes
• Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
• Family Functioning
• Independent Mental Health Act Tribunal Assessments
• Offending Behaviour
• Parenting (including impact of a learning disability / mental health issue)
• Personal Injury (including physical injury, traumatic brain injury, mental health consequences)
• Personality
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders
• Risk Assessments
• Social and Adaptive Functioning
• Trauma
• Vulnerable Witnesses
• Work Related Stress

We will respond at our earliest opportunity with an estimate of time and costs involved and a CV of the most appropriate Chartered Psychologist for the case. Requests for specific associates are welcomed although we can not guarantee their availability.