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Choose a starting point
Start with the detail you have
Some cases start with a clinical discipline, others with a location, a claim or a report. Follow the route that matches the instruction in front of you.
Browse specialties
Explore all 138 disciplines, arranged in six clinical groups.
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See the medical disciplines commonly relevant to the type of claim.
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Explore coverage across the four UK nations and assessment options.
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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.
Mental health
Psychiatry, psychology, neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry. The disciplines instructed on capacity, psychiatric injury and fitness to plead.
Surgery
Orthopaedic, spinal, trauma and plastic surgery, through to neurosurgery, ENT, maxillofacial surgery and dentistry.
Medicine
Cardiology, neurology, oncology, respiratory and pain medicine, alongside the general physician specialties.
Primary and acute care
General practice, emergency medicine, obstetrics, paediatrics, anaesthetics, intensive care and nursing.
Therapies and rehabilitation
Occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, and rehabilitation medicine, where care needs are assessed.
Diagnostics and laboratory
Radiology, haematology and microbiology, where the evidence is read from imaging, samples and laboratory records.
Four ways in
How the register is organised
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Claim types
Start from the claim on your desk, from clinical negligence to asbestos disease, and see which disciplines it instructs.
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Report types
What each report answers, from screening to quantum, and when a single joint expert applies.
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Locations
Coverage across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with the differences between the three legal systems stated plainly.
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Guides
Short guides to Part 35 reports and expert procedure, written for instructing solicitors.
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.
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