Forensic medicine expert witnesses

Forensic medical evidence often turns on contemporaneous documentation: body maps, photographs, custody records, examination findings and toxicology. The jurisdiction and purpose of the report should be clear, particularly where police powers or coronial processes are in issue.

• Whether the recorded injuries are consistent with the account, mechanism and timing advanced.
• Whether injury documentation and contemporaneous examination support the conclusion drawn from it.
• Whether fitness for detention or interview was assessed against the information available at the time.
• Whether restraint, intoxication, medication or an untreated condition is clinically relevant to the issue.
• Where a forensic physician’s opinion should be read with toxicology, pathology or psychiatric evidence.

Practitioners are listed by discipline and can be narrowed by location across the four UK nations. The register publishes the listing; the instruction is agreed directly with the practitioner.