I have extensive experience as a medico-legal expert. On average, 8 to 10 expert reports per month in medical negligence cases. I worked as consultant surgeon in the NHS from 1994 to 2023.  Recently retired.

Instructed by solicitors on behalf of NHS Trusts and the NHS Resolution and by solicitors on behalf of claimants in medical negligence and personal injury cases.

Court appearances as expert witness in 2002, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022. and 2024, including 8 appearances at the Royal Courts of Justice, 2 appearances at County Courts and 2 appearances at the Supreme Court of Bermuda.

Expert reports cover a wide range of cases of alleged negligence in general surgery including:

Laparoscopic colorectal, surgery complications, laparoscopic cholecystectomy and complications, laparoscopic and open inguinal hernia surgery, bowel injury at gynaecological laparoscopic procedures, incisional and strangulated hernia.

Areas include:

Appendicitis, acute abdomen, peritonitis, diverticulitis intestinal fistula, colo-vaginal fistula, intestinal ischaemia, small bowel obstruction colonic pseudo-obstruction, colonoscopic bowel injuries, obstetric anal sphincter injuries, septic complications of diabetes, complications of colorectal surgery, colorectal cancer diagnosis, gastrointestinal perforation by ingested foreign bodies, postoperative deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolus.