Dr Sanya Krljes is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with extensive experience conducting complex psychological assessments and providing medicolegal reports in criminal and civil proceedings.

Dr Krljes holds two doctorates: one in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychology from Imperial College London and the other in Clinical Psychology from University College London.

She also has a master’s degree in Neuroscience from the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London. With over 20 years of experience, she specialises in conducting neuropsychological, personality and mental health assessments and providing medicolegal reports in criminal and civil proceedings.

She has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications and authored book chapterson the subject of cognitiveneuroscience and psychological assessments in the medicolegal arena.

Dr Krljes has provided medicolegal reports to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), numerous solicitor firms, and regulatory bodies such as the General Medical Council (GMC) and the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).

She has extensive experience giving evidence at crown courts in many high-profile homicide and sexual offence trials.

Dr Krljes practices from various consulting rooms throughout the U.K. and assesses clients at prisons, care homes, hospitals and solicitors’ offices.

Dr Krljes specialises in the following:

Civil Law

• Neuropsychological assessment in relation personal injury, medical negligence (acquired brain injury, cognitive functioning), neurodegenerative conditions (e.g. dementia)
• Mental capacity
• ADHD and ASD
• PTSD and cPTSD
• Mental illness
• Intellectual functioning assessments (e.g. IQ)
• Malingering
• Fitness to practice assessments

Criminal Law

• Neuropsychology assessments – ABI, dementia.
• ADHD and ASD.
• Personality.
• Mental capacity.
• PTSD.
• Depression and anxiety.
• Mental capacity.
• Malingering.
• Risk of sexual and/or violent offending (including highly specialised tools such as PCL- R, HCR-20 V3, RSVP).
• Terrorist radicalisation assessments.

• Suggestibility and compliance.
• Employment Law.
• Work-related stress.
• Occupational injury.
• Workplace discrimination.
• Psychological injury.
• Fitness for work.
• Capability and unfair dismissal.
• Fitness to practice.