Medico Legal Experience
DR NIREEJA PRADHAN, MBBS, MRCPsych, MA (Medical Ethics & Law)
CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST
EXPERT WITNESS / PSYCHIATRIC REPORTS
Member of Society of Expert Witnesses, Sweet & Maxwell Checked, Medico-legal Society, Expert Witness Institute, , Association of Personal Injury Lawyers, British Medical Association, Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK.
I have provided several hundred medico legal reports for a variety of reasons including post injury compensation, child protection matters and occupational health assessments including Disability Discrimination Act assessments.
I have been preparing medico legal reports for the assistance of the Civil Courts since 1999 These reports have been for the purpose of Child care proceedings covering a wide range of issues including parental assessments. Personal injury cases and patients with post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety / depression.
I have been instructed by some of the largest law firms in the UK and completed a significant number of reports in highly complex and high profile VHCC cases.
Working in the inner city area of Birmingham I am often asked to provide expert witness reports in complex child care proceedings. I am regularly instructed by local councils across the country to prepare reports.
I normally assess patients at my consulting rooms in Birmingham and I also travel nationwide to assess clients. Reports are normally completed one week after appointment.
PERSONAL INJURY & OCCUPATIONAL / TRIBUNAL
- Employment Tribunals / Disability Discrimination Act
- Trauma Sequelae (Psychiatry including Personal Injury)
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (Psychiatry)
- Psychosomatic Disorders/ Munchausen / Malingering
– fraudulent simulation or exaggeration of symptoms assessments
- Munchausen by proxy
- Psychiatric Assessment
- Psychopathology / Psychiatric Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders / Depression
- Psychiatric Injury
- Medical Negligence
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Victims of Abuse
FAMILY LAW
- Child contact and custody cases
- Parental Psychiatric assessments
- Risk Assessments / Domestic Violence
CRIMINAL COURTS
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Personality Disorders/Psychoses
- Criminal Responsibility (Psychiatric Assessment)
- Fitness To Plead (Psychiatric Assessment)
- Dangerousness/Risk Assessment (Psychiatric)
- Violence/Self Harm/Suicide
- Criminal Behaviour
- Offender Assessment (Psychiatric)
- Witness Assessment/Testamentary Capacity
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Abnormal Behaviour (Psychiatric Assessment)
- Mental Disorder (Psychiatric Assessment)
- Psychiatric Care
- Psychiatric Rehabilitation
- Rape / Sexual abuse
- Crime Victims (psychiatry) Torture Victims (psychiatry)
IMMIGRATION
Asylum Seeker Psychiatric assessments