Case types
Across every area of law
Whatever the legal context, we can match you to a psychiatrist whose court experience and sub-specialty fit the case.
Civil & Personal Injury
Claims for compensation and capacity matters
Clinical negligence
Psychiatric evidence on treatment failures, missed diagnoses, birth injury and consequential harm.
Use when your case sits in clinical negligence →
Court of Protection
Capacity assessments under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 for Court of Protection proceedings.
Use when your case sits in court of protection →
Inquests
Article 2 inquests, deaths in custody and deaths under mental health care.
Use when your case sits in inquests →
Military & veterans
Combat PTSD, AFCS appeals and military noise-induced psychiatric injury claims.
Use when your case sits in military & veterans →
Personal injury
Psychiatric injury reports for road traffic, workplace, assault and catastrophic injury claims.
Use when your case sits in personal injury →
Family & Tribunals
Family courts, tribunals and public law
Family law
Care proceedings, parental functioning, capacity and complex private family disputes.
Use when your case sits in family law →
Housing
Housing disrepair, possession and homelessness cases involving psychiatric injury or vulnerability.
Use when your case sits in housing →
Immigration & asylum
Trauma, PTSD, vulnerability and risk on return for asylum and immigration cases.
Use when your case sits in immigration & asylum →
Mental Health Tribunal
Independent psychiatric reports for First-tier Tribunal (Mental Health) hearings.
Use when your case sits in mental health tribunal →
Public law
Vulnerability, capacity and judicial review of decisions affecting mental health.
Use when your case sits in public law →
Criminal & Professional
Criminal courts, prison and regulators
Criminal law
Fitness to plead, mental state, sentencing mitigation, hospital orders and risk assessment.
Use when your case sits in criminal law →
Employment law
Work-related stress, bullying, harassment and disability claims at tribunal.
Use when your case sits in employment law →
Fitness to practise
Regulator hearings, GMC, NMC, HCPC, SRA, where psychiatric evidence is in issue.
Use when your case sits in fitness to practise →
Prison law
Parole Board, hospital transfer and category review psychiatric assessments.
Use when your case sits in prison law →
Wills & probate
Testamentary capacity, undue influence and contested probate matters.
Use when your case sits in wills & probate →
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