Comprehensive Mental Health Reports by expert mental health nurses

Mental health is often a significant feature in complex legal proceedings. Questions may arise around capacity and responsibility, as well as the lasting impact of psychiatric injury. Physical injury can also influence pre-existing or underlying mental health conditions.

Our mental health associate experts bring years of clinical and medico-legal experience to cases where these factors complicate the overall picture and are central to determining needs and outcomes.

Our experts provide clear, evidence-based reports that support decision-making in a wide range of legal contexts. Drawing on specialist clinical knowledge and medico-legal experience, they deliver assessments that address both straightforward and highly complex issues. Whether the case involves questions of liability, capacity, care needs, or psychiatric injury, our reports are designed to give clarity, depth, and insight to assist the court and those instructing us.

Our approach

Our experts undertake thorough reviews of medical records, gather histories and backgrounds, and, where required, carry out face-to-face assessments.

Each report is carefully tailored to the issues in question, ensuring that opinions are robust and grounded in specialist expertise. We make our reasoning transparent, our conclusions well-evidenced, and our recommendations clear and practical.

Alongside extensive clinical knowledge, our experts bring an appreciation of the human impact of mental health difficulties. Assessments are carried out with sensitivity and respect for the individual, recognising the personal and often challenging circumstances behind each case.

Sherean Owusu

Occupational Therapist

Our experts are instructed in a wide range of cases where mental health is a central issue. They can provide opinion on matters such as;

Capacity and decision-making, including assessments of an individual’s ability to engage in legal proceedings
Responsibility and risk, including diminished responsibility and assessments under the Mental Health Act
Psychological injury, such as PTSD, depression and anxiety arising from accidents, workplace incidents and other traumatic events
Clinical negligence, including delayed or missed diagnoses, treatment errors and the consequences of inadequate or inappropriate care
Family and safeguarding issues, such as parental capacity assessments, the impact of mental health difficulties on children, and risk assessments within child protection cases
Neurodevelopmental and cognitive conditions, including autism, ADHD, dementia and acquired or traumatic brain injury
Workplace and tribunal matters, including psychiatric injury in employment disputes and fitness to practise hearings.

Sian Cooper

Advanced Nurse Practitioner |
Registered Mental Health Nurse

Our full suite of reports

Our experts are instructed to provide reports across a wide range of legal contexts, including;

Liability reports
Quantum reports – past and future care needs, rehabilitation requirements, and support packages
Cognitive and capacity assessments – litigation capacity, testamentary capacity, financial decision-making, and health/welfare decisions
Contentious probate reports
Coroners’ reports
Family Care reports / Gratuitous Care reports
Fitness to practise reports
Psychiatric injury reports
Neurodevelopmental, cognitive and neuropsychological assessment reports