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Expert witness services

Drawing on his extensive clinical, medicolegal and academic experience, Professor Nathan provides high quality and thorough psychiatric assessments and reports for a range of legal proceedings.

He offers remote and face-to-face assessments and is able to see people at solicitors’ offices, hospitals, or prisons. He is based in the Northwest of England, but can travel outside this area if necessary.

His current availability for assessments and submission of reports is within 4 weeks of receipt of agreed instructions.

Criminal Law

  • Fitness to plead
  • Mental state at the time of the offence (including insanity, automatism, capacity to form specific intent)
  • Homicide cases (including diminished responsibility and loss of control)
  • Sentencing (including assessment of dangerousness)
  • Psychiatric assessments for appeals against conviction and sentencing
  • Bail assessments

Prison law

  • Psychiatric reports for parole hearings
  • Risk assessments
  • Assessments for section 47 or 48 (MHA) transfers

Mental health law

  • Psychiatric reports for mental health review tribunals (Parts II and III of the Mental Health Act)
  • Medical recommendations for Mental Health Act admission/treatment 

Family Law

  • Litigation capacity
  • Assessments of parents in care proceedings (over 18 only)
  • Assessments of parents in private law proceedings
  • Psychosocial formulation of parenting problems
  • Management plans to address mental health needs and engagement with professionals 
  • Assessments of parents in pre-proceedings

Personal injury

Psychiatric reports in personal injury cases, including: 
  • clinical negligence in mental health care
  • psychiatric injury 
  • employment stress
  • historical abuse 

Coroners Court

Independent psychiatric reports for Coroners' Inquests
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