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Accepting instructions on behalf of Claimants and Defendants, our Associates deliver expert opinion that is fully compliant with Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules.
Our clinicians, who are experts in their fields, are able to report on the following services. We provide a bespoke enquiry service to match the most appropriate expert to each claim:
We offer Quantum reports with the scope of:
Our experts carry out detailed assessments of the claimant and comprehensive reviews of evidence to make objective and justified costing recommendations to assist the Court. This provides thorough calculations and reasonings based on the medical evidence.
Our associates are mindful and have regard to the re-traumatisation of Claimants when assessing. They carry out a detailed assessment with the family and/ or dependants to make reasoned costings for the services that the deceased would reasonably have provided in the past and future, taking into account the evidence and detail from their assessment.
We accept instructions to review the relevant evidence and prepare a desktop, short form report with costings, on urgent timescales.
We will require any pleadings, medical reports, and witness statements, where available, to enable us to cost the likely requisite care in a case where there is insufficient time or any other reason preventing an assessment.
The reports are much shorter and less costly.
Our short form reports are intended for advisory purposes only and should not be disclosed as they are not CPR Compliant. Any opinion and advice is based on the limited evidence made available at the time of instruction. Our experts therefore reserve the right to alter their opinion in the event that further evidence is made available to them.
Our experts have received legal training and understand their CPR-Part 35 duties in relation to Breach of Duty claims. They are familiar with the legal principles of Bolam and Bolitho and keep these tests in mind when making their recommendations on liability and causation.
We offer:
Our Breach of Duty experts have extensive and up to date clinical experience in their field of expertise.
Naomi Simpson is a registered physiotherapist and can undertake reports regarding assessing physiotherapy requirements in relation to a range of conditions, along with breach of duty reports regarding standards of reasonable physiotherapy care.
Karl McGilligan is able to undertake Breach of Duty and Paramedic Expert witness reports related to an accident occurrence. He can advise on standards of care provided by paramedics and is able to advise on major incident responses. Karl is able to comment on accident interpretation and the mechanism of the injury based on scene assessment and clinical findings, interpret how injuries likely occurred, and describe the clinical severity of the injuries presented.
Our statutory funding reports consider the need to account for the risk of double recovery in personal injury actions when the Claimant is receiving, or likely to receive financial support for care/ equipment from statutory services.
They can assess:
The aim of our statutory funding advice reports is to provide a basis to work with statutory provision and supplement it where necessary.
We use the Care Act 2014 as a framework for our care needs assessment.
Our Associate, Rachel Pegrum, is a Senior Social Worker and has many years’ experience in assessing the social care needs of adults and children. She has an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the statutory framework and relevant legislation to enable her to provide statutory funding reports and make recommendations on the entitlement to social care packages.
Personal Injury Actions
Rachel delivers statutory funding advice by reviewing the care needs of both adults and children and the extent to which statutory bodies’ service provision and funding should be integrated into support packages. Rachel can provide a comprehensive report to advise on these questions.
Case Management
Rachel can also act as an effective intervention to case management by providing a focussed approach to determining the responsibilities of the public authorities and ensuring implementation of funding, allowing case managers to focus on rehabilitation goals. Rachel has a proven collaborative approach to acting as part of the MDT in her many years’ experience in social work.
Trustees/ Deputies
We have been instructed by professional deputies to assist them in their role regarding funding.
If the Claimant lacks capacity, a best-interest decision meeting needs to take place, and statutory services need to be involved. Rachel Pegrum accepts instructions to complete Mental Capacity Assessments having undertaken comprehensive training in the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
