Find a psychiatric or psychological expert witness in England and Wales: 48 providers across 8 regions

Solicitors and litigants still arrive at this site looking for a psychiatrist or psychologist to prepare a report. The practice it belonged to has closed. In its place this page lists 48 organisations that currently provide medico-legal expert evidence in England and Wales — independent consultants' practices, medico-legal agencies and expert-witness registers — across 8 regions, each traced to its own website and shown with the number printed there. Nothing here is a referral: choose a region and contact the organisation directly.

Regions

Instructing a psychiatric expert: the checks that matter

Registration and licence. A psychiatrist should hold GMC registration with a licence to practise and, for court work, ideally be on the Specialist Register; a psychologist should be HCPC-registered. Both are searchable online in a minute.
Relevant clinical experience. An expert on postnatal illness is not automatically the right expert on brain injury or fitness to plead. Ask what proportion of their clinical work matches the issue in your case.
CPR Part 35 and the duty to the court. The expert's overriding duty is to the court, not to the party paying; the report must say so and follow Practice Direction 35 and the Civil Justice Council guidance.
Timescales and fees in writing. Appointment lead time, report turnaround, hourly or fixed fee, cancellation terms and whether legal-aid rates apply — before the letter of instruction.
Single joint expert. In family and many civil matters the court expects one expert instructed jointly; check the organisation is willing to act as SJE and has done so before.
Court experience. Ask how often the expert gives oral evidence and whether they have attended expert-witness training.

Why this list exists

The archived pages of this site describe one consultant psychiatrist's medico-legal practice, which has closed. Because the pages still attract enquiries, the site now points visitors to organisations that are active today — found through their own websites and checked in September 2026. Appearing here costs nothing and means only that the organisation exists and offers this service in the region; details are theirs and may have changed. Additions and corrections: hello@drsteinlegalreports.co.uk.

Read this first. The organisations listed on this page are shown for information only. This is not a referral service, not legal or medical advice, and no organisation has paid to appear. The site has no connection with any of them, has not assessed the quality of their reports or evidence and does not recommend one over another; the practice whose archived site this is has closed and has no involvement in any listing. Details were taken from each organisation's own website in September 2026 and may have changed. No responsibility or liability is accepted for the accuracy of this list, for the work, fees or conduct of any listed organisation, or for the outcome of any case in which they are instructed. Solicitors should verify registration (GMC, HCPC, SRA) and expert-witness terms directly. Corrections or removal: hello@drsteinlegalreports.co.uk.