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Updated as of
26/05/2012
Professional Details
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Date of Birth
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Private
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Professional Title
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Consultant
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GMC Registration Number
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4540117
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Discipline
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Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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Qualifications & Memberships
MBBS
MD
MRCPsych
Expert Witness Memberships
The Expert Witness Institute
The Academy of Experts
The UK Register of Expert Witnesses
The Society of Expert Witnesses
Medical Experts Online
Specialistinfo
Areas of Particular Expertise
Psychiatry Including ADHD & Autism
Forensic Adolescent Especially Sexual Offending & Substance Misuse Issues
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Looked-after Children
Care Proceedings
Violence
Asylum & Immigration
Psychological Aspects of Medical Negligence
Psychiatric Consequences of Medical Negligence
Willing to Undertake
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Clinical Negligence
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Yes
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Legal Aid
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Yes
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Personal Injury
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Yes
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Forensic
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Yes
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Family Court
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Yes
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Approximate Ratios of Work
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Claimant
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0%
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Defendant
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50%
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Single Joint Expert
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50%
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Average Number of Instructions Per Year
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Medico Legal Experience
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Medico-legal reports on young people and families
I work with children and young people in the care system and in the Youth
Justice System. In the Criminal Justice System, I provide reports on the
areas identified above. Within the Care System, I provide expert
psychiatric opinion on mental health matters in context of placements,
mental illnesses and developmental disabilities. I have particular expertise
in ADHD, Autistic Spectrum Disorder and complex clinical presentations. I
also provide psychiatric cover for young people abusing substances
including substitute prescribing for Buprenorphine (Subutex).
I am multilingual being able to speak Hindi, Gujrati and some Urdu.
1. Criminal Matters:
a. Psychiatric Reports and assessments in criminal cases for
Crown, Youth and Magistrates' Courts.
b. Assessment for ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder), particularly for repeat offenders
c. Assessment for Learning Disability in the context of offending
d. Psychiatric Assessments for Fitness to Plead cases
e. Pre-sentencing Assessments
f. Criminal Responsibility and Learning Disability
g. Assessment of Dangerousness / Risk Assessment (Lang and
Johnson cases)
h. Sexual Crimes including sexual harassment
i. Arson
j. Violent Criminal Assessments including Murder
k. Violence /Self Harm/Suicide
l. Risk assessment for planning release from custody.
m. Abnormal Behaviour
2. Placement Proceedings:
a. Determining appropriateness of placement for children in
care
b. Risk assessment to determine placement
c. Advice on therapeutic input required for success of placement
d. Single expert report for submission to court in placement
proceedings
3. Negligence:
Negligence by local authorities in discharging their duties
appropriately.
4. Personal Injury:
a. Post - traumatic Stress Disorder
b. Psychological sequelae of injuries
c. Depression and Anxiety Disorder assessment
5. Asylum Seeker:
a. Assessment of trauma prior to becoming a refugee / asylum
seeker
b. Assessment of trauma in relation to repatriation
Languages
Urdu
Hindi
Gujarati
Marathi
Venues
The clinic venue address/es are detailed below. The expert should only be contacted
at the contact address as given above.
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Venue Addresses -
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Forensic Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service
7 St Peters Close
SHEFFIELD
S1 2EJ
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