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2,412
practitioners in independent practice
138
clinical disciplines listed
67
cities across the four nations
Three
legal systems, correctly stated

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Browse independent expert witnesses

Filter by medical specialty, medico-legal experience, location and assessment type. Keyword terms stack, so you can narrow to the exact combination your claim needs. Every practitioner listed here is instructed directly.

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KU Male Lincoln

Kenneth U.

Obstetrician

  • Perineal trauma
  • Single Joint Expert
  • Clinical negligence
  • Birth injury claims
  • Cardiotocograph interpretation

Remote/Virtual and Face to face

BL Female Sheffield

Bronwen L.

Optometrist

  • Clinical negligence
  • Personal injury
  • Diabetic retinopathy screening
  • Contact lens complications
  • Referral to ophthalmology

Face to face

FW Male Newcastle

Felix W.

Psychologist

  • Personal injury claims
  • Clinical negligence
  • Risk assessment reports
  • Depression and anxiety

Face to face

CC Male Belfast

Conor C.

Personal Injury Specialist

  • Condition and prognosis reports
  • Causation of injury
  • Whiplash associated disorder
  • Apportionment of pre-existing conditions

Remote/Virtual and Face to face

MG Male London

Malcolm G.

Head & Neck Surgeon

  • Clinical negligence
  • Personal injury claims
  • Delayed cancer diagnosis
  • Consent and treatment options

Remote/Virtual and Face to face

LB Male Edinburgh

Lachlan B.

Musculoskeletal Specialist

  • Personal injury claims
  • Clinical negligence
  • Shoulder and elbow injuries
  • Repetitive strain injury

Remote/Virtual

NP Female Birmingham

Niamh P.

Medico-Legal Expert

  • Clinical negligence
  • Personal injury claims
  • Medical records review
  • Condition and prognosis reports
  • Inquests
  • Breach of duty opinion

Remote/Virtual

KF Female Dundee

Katherine F.

Psychologist

  • Capacity assessments
  • Single Joint Expert
  • Personal injury claims
  • Clinical negligence

Remote/Virtual and Face to face

NM Female Cambridge

Niamh M.

Nurse

  • Clinical negligence
  • Personal injury claims
  • Pressure ulcer care
  • Escalation of deteriorating patients
  • Wound care management

Remote/Virtual and Face to face

WW Male Truro

Wilfred W.

Orthopaedic Surgeon

  • Clinical negligence
  • Fracture fixation
  • Injury mechanism and causation
  • Road traffic collision injuries
  • Joint replacement outcomes

Face to face

CB Female Bristol

Carys B.

Maxillofacial Surgeon

  • Clinical negligence
  • Personal injury claims
  • Facial nerve injury
  • Single Joint Expert
  • Facial scarring and disfigurement
  • Temporomandibular joint disorders

Face to face

CD Female Sheffield

Clemency D.

Clinical Nutritionist

  • Clinical negligence
  • Personal injury
  • Inquests
  • Nutritional care in care homes
  • Paediatric nutrition

Remote/Virtual and Face to face

DW Male Nottingham

David W.

Neurologist

  • Clinical negligence
  • Personal injury claims
  • Stroke diagnosis and management
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Epilepsy and seizure disorders
  • Capacity assessments

Remote/Virtual and Face to face

FE Female Sheffield

Florence E.

Neurosurgeon

  • Clinical negligence
  • Personal injury claims
  • Subarachnoid haemorrhage
  • Chronic subdural haematoma
  • Spinal cord injury
  • Nerve root injury

Remote/Virtual

VE Female Dundee

Victoria E.

Laparoscopic Surgeon

  • Clinical negligence
  • Personal injury claims
  • Conversion to open surgery
  • Gallbladder surgery complications
  • Bile duct injury

Remote/Virtual and Face to face

Specialties

Medical expert witness specialties, in six clinical groups

Every discipline on the register sits in one of six groups. Psychiatry, dentistry and neurology are listed like any other specialty.

01

Mental health

Psychiatry, psychology, neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. The disciplines instructed on capacity, psychiatric injury and fitness to plead.

02

Surgery

Orthopaedic, spinal, trauma and plastic surgery, through to neurosurgery, ENT, maxillofacial surgery and dentistry.

03

Medicine

Cardiology, neurology, oncology, respiratory and pain medicine, alongside the general physician specialties.

04

Primary and acute care

General practice, emergency medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics, anaesthetics, intensive care and nursing.

05

Therapies and rehabilitation

Occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, and rehabilitation medicine, where care needs are assessed.

06

Diagnostics and laboratory

Radiology, haematology and microbiology, where the evidence is read from imaging, samples and laboratory records.

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Four ways in

How the register is organised

  • Claim types

    Start from the claim on your desk, from clinical negligence to asbestos disease, and see which disciplines it instructs.

  • Report types

    What each report answers, from screening to quantum, and when a single joint expert applies.

  • Locations

    Coverage across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with the differences between the three legal systems stated plainly.

  • Guides

    Short guides to Part 35 reports and expert procedure, written for instructing solicitors.

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Listings

What a medical expert witness listing shows

Every listing states the practitioner’s medical specialty and the title they practise under, the areas of medico-legal experience recorded against their name, the location they consult from, and whether they assess remotely, face to face, or both. Those are the fields the directory filters on, alongside a keyword search that runs across all of them.

Location narrows a list that is already correct; it cannot rescue one that is not. Where the right practitioner for the claim sits outside your region, instructing a closer but less suitable one is the more expensive mistake.

A listing records that the practitioner accepts expert witness instructions in that discipline. The judgement about whether they suit your case, and the terms on which they act, stays between you and them.

CPR Part 35 governs expert evidence in civil proceedings in England and Wales. Criminal proceedings run under Part 19 of the Criminal Procedure Rules and family proceedings under Part 25 of the Family Procedure Rules. Scotland and Northern Ireland run separate systems with their own rules on expert evidence. Which rules apply follows from the forum and the type of proceedings, not from where the practitioner consults.

The register

A register, not an agency

expertsearch publishes the details of medical practitioners who advertise their expert witness practice on it, and takes no part in the work. Instruction, scope and fee are agreed directly with the practitioner.

How the register is compiled, and what a listing does and does not signify, is set out in the expert witness register.

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