Assessments for the Family Court
I provide expert witness assessments and reports for Family Courts on topics including the following:
- Psychological functioning and treatment needs
- Intellectual, cognitive and memory functioning
- Parenting and the impact of mental illness and/or learning disability
- Impact of risk in parenting
- Impact of domestic violence on parents and children
- Capacity to parent
- Mental capacity
- Suggestibility
- Forensic risk assessment
- Fitness to plead or stand trial
- Personality disorder
- Trauma and abuse
- Mental illness and substance misuse
Fees:
Fees are charged at Legal Aid rates. Once a case is discussed with me, I will send an estimation of fees as soon as possible.
Timescales:
Average timescale for the completion of assessment and filing of report is between 4 and 6 weeks of receipt of the Letter of Instruction and papers.