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Psychiatric and psychological reports for legal proceedings

Independent psychiatric and psychological reports prepared by GMC-registered psychiatrists and HCPC-registered psychologists, for solicitors, courts and tribunals across England and Wales.

Expert Medical Examination provides independent psychiatric and psychological reports across criminal, family, civil, immigration and tribunal proceedings. Reports are prepared by GMC-registered psychiatrists and HCPC-registered practitioner psychologists, matched to the clinical question in the case and written to meet the duties an expert owes to the court.

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Registered specialists

Reports are prepared by psychiatrists on the GMC register and by practitioner psychologists on the HCPC register. The expert is matched to the issue, so the question goes to someone whose practice covers it and a child matter to a child specialist.

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Independent by duty

Whoever instructs and pays for the report, the expert's overriding duty is to the court. Opinions are formed after assessment and review of the records, not agreed in advance.

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Written for the proceedings

Each report is set out to answer the questions the court or the instructing party has asked, and written for the proceedings it is intended for. The rules that apply to a given case are a matter for the instructing party and the court.

One panel for psychiatric and psychological evidence

From a single instruction we match the case to a suitably registered psychiatrist or psychologist, arrange the assessment and manage the report through to delivery, so the instructing party has one point of contact rather than several.

  • Psychological injury reports for personal injury and clinical negligence
  • Criminal reports including fitness to plead and mental state at the time
  • Family reports on parenting capacity and litigation capacity
  • Immigration and asylum reports, including trauma and its documentation
  • Mental capacity assessments under the Mental Capacity Act 2005
  • Tribunal reports and oral evidence
  • Housing and homelessness vulnerability reports
  • Parole Board risk and mental health reports
  • Private psychiatric and psychological assessments
  • Psychiatry, psychology and neuropsychology reports
  • Autism and ADHD diagnostic assessments
  • Single instruction, with the report managed through to delivery
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