- Child & Family
- Adoption & Foster Care
Psychologist expert witness
This service is open to solicitors, local authorities, crown prosecution service and medico-legal agencies.
We can provide expert witnesses for family, civil and criminal law cases. Our experts offer high quality reports and rates are in line with legal aid agency. We are equipped to deal with urgent instructions.
We are Bond Solon trained in:
Report Writing, Court Room Skills, Cross-Examination and Civil Law and Procedure
We will respond to your enquiry with experts CVs, costs and timescales within 24 hours. We will not take any instruction if we lack expertise in that area. The clinician writing the report will be familiar with Practice Direction 35 and the pre action protocol.
Our Case Types
These are some of the cases we take:
- Criminal Cases
- Civil Cases
- Clinical Negligence
- Immigration & Asylum
- Occupational Health
- Educational
The Way We Work
Our lead clinician has undertaken bond solon training in providing high quality, comprehensive reports.
This is our medico legal process below:
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Response
We provide experts CVs, costs and timescales within 24 hours
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Appointment
When you have chosen your expert, client contacted and assigned appointment date
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Client Reminder
72 hours before appointment client contacted to confirm attendance
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Assessment Complete
Report written within 3 - 4 weeks or inline with timescales agreed for urgent instructions
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Report Dispatched
Report quality checked and sent back to you
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
Our aim is to deliver a fast and effective response to all expert witness requirements, our experts usually turn around reports within 3 to 4 weeks from formal instruction. However, we understand the urgent nature of some cases so will endeavour to provide experts at short notice. Please get in touch.
Yes, we work on legal aid cases and offer a legal aid rate. Quotes will be fully itemised and adhere to LAA expert guidelines.
We work for solicitors, the Crown Prosecution Service, Barristers, Local Authorities and private clients. As you would expect, our experts are completely impartial, no matter who they are instructed by.
All our experts are experienced in giving evidence in court, we have a robust vetting process to ensure that our experts are leaders in their field and have the appropriate experience in assessments and reports for court proceedings.
Use our ‘Assessment Enquiry‘ form or email us on [email protected] and we will source a suitable expert for your case. We will respond to you within 24 hours with a quote and suitable experts. When you have chosen your expert and sent through a signed purchase order, we will instruct the expert for your case, specifying your timescales. You will need to send through any accompanying paperwork for the case.
Your account manager will liaise with you at every step of the process ensuring that you are fully informed. Once the assessment has been conducted and the expert has completed the report, we will quality check this and send it over to you.