Psychiatrist medico-legal reports
Independent psychiatric reports from GMC-registered consultant psychiatrists for personal injury, negligence and immigration matters, prepared to CPR Part 35 standards for court work, with the expert's overriding duty owed to the court or tribunal hearing the case.
Psychiatric injury is often the part of a claim that is hardest to see and easiest to undervalue. Expert Medical arranges independent reports from GMC-registered consultant psychiatrists, including Section 12 approved psychiatrists where the case requires one, covering post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anxiety after accidents, the psychiatric consequences of negligent care, and mental health evidence for immigration and asylum appeals before the First-tier Tribunal.
Solicitors instruct our psychiatrists across personal injury, clinical negligence, housing and immigration work, and insurers instruct them where a psychiatric diagnosis or its attribution is disputed. Reports for court proceedings are prepared to CPR Part 35 standards, tribunal reports follow the Tribunal's own directions on expert evidence, and where the wider case needs psychological testing or treatment recommendations, our Psychiatric and Psychological division provides the same service under one instruction.
Consultant-level diagnosis
Reports are prepared by consultant psychiatrists on the GMC Specialist Register, matched to the question in the case, so a trauma claim goes to a psychiatrist who treats trauma and an older claimant to one experienced in old age psychiatry. Diagnoses follow recognised criteria and the reasoning is shown.
Causation and prognosis
A psychiatric report has to separate what the incident caused from what was already there. Our psychiatrists take a full history, review the records, and give a clear opinion on diagnosis, attribution and prognosis, including the treatment likely to help, such as trauma-focused therapy, and the expected course of recovery.
Immigration and tribunal evidence
For asylum and human rights appeals, psychiatric evidence often addresses PTSD, fitness to give evidence, vulnerability and suicide risk on removal. Reports for the First-tier Tribunal are addressed to the Tribunal, kept concise and focused on the disputed issues, and prepared with sensitivity where the history involves torture or trafficking.
Psychiatric evidence with a wider division behind it
Psychiatrist reports here connect to a full Psychiatric and Psychological division covering criminal, family, capacity and parole work. Whatever the forum, the psychiatrist examines independently, reasons openly and reports to the court, so the opinion holds up when the other side starts asking questions.
- PTSD, depression and anxiety after accidents
- Psychiatric injury in clinical negligence claims
- Immigration and asylum reports for the First-tier Tribunal
- Fitness to give evidence and vulnerability assessments
- Suicide risk and self-harm opinions where in issue
- Chronic pain and somatic symptom presentations
- Capacity and litigation capacity questions where they arise
- Section 12 approved psychiatrists where required
- Responses to Part 35 questions and joint statements
- Oral evidence at court or tribunal where required
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