Psychiatric Expert is a chambers-style platform dedicated exclusively to psychiatric and psychological medico-legal evidence. Our faculty brings together consultant psychiatrists, forensic psychiatrists, child and adolescent psychiatrist, neuropsychiatrist and psychologists.

All committed to producing high-quality reports, court-compliant and defensible.

We provide the structure, quality-assurance framework, mentoring, and operational support that enable you to practise at the highest standard without compromising independence or integrity.

Psychiatric Expert delivers independent, medico-legal psychiatric reports that are consultant-written, structured, and court-compliant, supported by a continuous quality-improvement framework.

Trusted by leading law firms, our evidence keeps cases progressing and withstands legal scrutiny. For consultants, we provide a supportive chambers-style faculty with rigorous Quality Assurance, mentoring, and full administrative support.

Areas include:

Liability and causation.
Condition and prognosis.
PTSD and trauma assessments.
Capacity and Court of Protection matters.
Fitness to work.
Mental state at the time of the incident.
Single Joint Expert (SJE) appointments.

Psychiatric disorders covered include:

Assessment of Mental Capacity.
ADHD.
Anxiety Disorders (generalised anxiety disorder, panic disorder, OCD, social phobia).
Dementia.
Drug and Alcohol disorders.

Mood Disorders (depression, bipolar affective disorder, dysthymia, seasonal affective disorder).
Personality disorder.
Psychosis (schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, drug-induced psychosis).
Stress-related illness.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Complex trauma.

Neuropsychiatric disorder secondary to neurological disease, including Acquired and Traumatic Brain Injury.

Functional neurological disorders (including chronic pain).

Types of cases they handle:

Family Law, covering both public and private proceedings.

Personal Injury.
Medical Negligence.
Mental Capacity (consent to treatment, court of protection, testamentary capacity).
Military Injury Compensation.

Employment.
Immigration.
Mental Health Tribunal.
Criminal Justice (offender assessments, fitness to plead, parole board).

Contact: Katharine Ives (Office Manager)
Office: 01603 819112

Email office@psychiatric-expert.org