Fitness to Plead Assessments by Expert Witness Psychologists In London & Throughout the UK
Fitness to Plead & Suggestability Assessments
We provide invaluable information to the court in criminal proceedings. Our expert witness psychologists, psychiatrists and medical practitioners have extensive experience in preparing expert reports for courts – both for the prosecution and defence. Whether it is an assessment of a client’s competence to stand trial or an evaluation of underlying psychological disorders, our psychologists are able to communicate their findings in a manner accessible to the court and jury.
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Fitness to Plead Assessments by Expert Witness Psychologists In London & Throughout the UK
Fitness to Plead & Suggestability Assessments
We provide invaluable information to the court in criminal proceedings. Our expert witness psychologists, psychiatrists and medical practitioners have extensive experience in preparing expert reports for courts – both for the prosecution and defence. Whether it is an assessment of a client’s competence to stand trial or an evaluation of underlying psychological disorders, our psychologists are able to communicate their findings in a manner accessible to the court and jury.
Many individuals who have autism have high intelligence and outstanding technical skills. There is a vast range of abilities in the autistic spectrum.
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Rated excellent
Fitness to Plead and Suggestibility Assessments
We stand above other expert witness practices in that our Chief Executive is trained as a psychologist and legally trained.
We can offer a wide range of assessments both prior to conviction and post conviction including:
- False confessions and assessment of suggestibility in police interviews
- Fitness to plead (including intellectual ability)
- Suggestibility – the tendency to be influenced by others and level of vulnerability
- Management of sexual offenders in the community
- Advice on the detection and management of psychiatric disorders by the police and prison services
- Criminal responsibility and compliance in people with learning disability
- Intelligence (IQ), fitness to pled, capacity to understand proceedings and capacity to predict the consequences of
- The need for an appropriate adult
- Defences of automatism
- Determining whether the offender had the intellectual ability to understand the nature and quality of their act
- Determining whether the victim had the intellectual capacity to consent (particularly in rape and fraud cases)
- Strength of eye witness testimony
- Neuropsychological assessments
- False memory syndrome
- Witness reliability
- Analysis of ABE interviews
- Assessment and diagnosis of psychopathy
- Levels of depression, anxiety, social integration and skills, trauma, past events and other underlying psychopathology and psychological distress
Fitness to Plead & Unfitness to Stand Trial
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We accept funding from the Legal Aid Agency and we are normally able to see clients within a week of confirmation of funding. Reports are normally released within 14 days of assessment.