Expert Witness Services
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Expert Witness Reports
At My Family Psychologist, we provide professional psychology expert witness services for family courts, crown courts, mental health tribunals, and parole boards. With over 20 years of experience, our registered expert witnesses help the court understand behaviours, mental health, risk, and rehabilitation needs through impartial, evidence-based assessments.
I am an expert witness to the family and crown courts as well as to mental health tribunals and parole boards. I have practiced as an expert witness within my field for over 20 years. I am registered expert witness with the British Psychological Society and I have received additional specific training in relation to this role.
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Expert witness work is a vital, highly specialised, and detailed component of the judicial process. The psychologist expert witness is an impartial ‘friend of the court’ who assists the court in understanding behaviours, mental health, motive, risk, mitigating factors, and recommending associated rehabilitation or therapeutic intervention as appropriate.
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Expert witness work requires a very detailed consideration and consolidation of all existing information with a focused and uniquely tailored assessment of the individual or individuals involved. Assessments culminate in the production of clear, comprehensive, and concise reports which satisfies the court’s questions or instruction points.
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In addition to conducting assessments and submitting reports, expert witness work can also involve attendance at court and the provision of oral evidence. I have significant experience in attending trials and hearings as well as providing assessments and reports.
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I aim to complete expert witness reports within six weeks of date of instruction and receipt of all the material involved. This timescale may change however if there is more than one individual to assess (in the case of the family court for example), where there are particular complexities, and or where new information comes to light during the assessment process. References and redacted examples of prior reports are available upon request.
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The most common areas of reporting covered by our psychology expert witnesses are:
- Family assessments including blended families, complex family dynamics, attachments, and interactions between all parties including children.Â
- Forensic assessments of children and adults, convicted and non convicted, including fitness to plead, risk, suggestibility, and suitability for therapeutic rehabilitation, including the nature and duration of such.Â
- Assessments of children from 0 to 18, including their families the attachment patterns, and familial dynamicsÂ
- Cognitive assessments, including assessments of intellectual and neurological functioning, and mental capacity in both children and adults.Â
I offer an initial free 15 minute consultation. If I cannot help I guarantee to signpost you to other originations and services that can.
