Medico-legal Services

   Dr Pawan Rajpal

(Consultant Psychiatrist)

MBBS, DPM, MRCPsych, PGDip (Mental Health Law)Qualified in 1996

Dr Rajpal practises as a Medico-legal Expert, specialising in Personal Injury, Criminal and Civil Cases, Learning Disability Psychiatry, Asperger’s and Autism, and Court of Protection.15 plus years of experience 

He is approved under Section 12 of the Mental Health Act 1983 and is an Approved Clinician.

Areas of expertise

• Defendant and jointly instructed by the Courts,  
• Assessment of Fitness to plead  
• Engage in Court process and give instructions
• Expert Witness in Magistrate,
• County and Coroners Courts,
• Mental Health Review Tribunals and
• Immigration Tribunals
• Mental capacity assessments in Civil matters and Court of Protection. 
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) assessment and reports
• Personal injury cases.  
• Able to appear and present in Courts
• Medico-legal reports for the claimant,

          Family Law

Psychiatric Assessments & Psychiatric Reports in Care Proceedings

•  Psychiatric Parental Assessments –    Risk Assessments
• Emotional and Sexual abuse
• Care proceedings
•  Contact Proceedings
• Mental Capacity Assessment
• Domestic violence
• Personality Disorders
• Psychosomatic Disorders/ Munchausen & Munchausen by proxy
• Sexual offences
• Adult ADHD
• Asperger’s
• Autism
• Child related Issues
• Substance abuse and Addictions: Drugs
• Alcohol, Gambling 
• Family Assessments
• Dynamics assesments
• Attachment  issues
• Parental Alienation
• Child Development Issues

         Criminal Law

 Forensic Psychiatric Reports

• Fitness to Plead and Stand trial
• Mental Disorders
• Risk assessments including Arson
• Pre-sentencing Reports
• Suggestibility
• Personality Disorders,Psychoses
• Hospital Orders
• Diminished Responsibility / Intent
• Sexual crime
• Violent crime
• Mental Health Review Panels
• Personality Disorders
• Violence
• Self Harm
• Suicide
• Offender Assessment
• Witness Assessment
• Testamentary Capacity
• Abnormal Behaviour
• Psychiatric Rehabilitation
• Rape
• Sexual abuse
• Crime Victims
• Section 18
• Section 37
•  Torture Victims
• Child Abuse
• Arson Cases
• Murder Cases
• Loss of control
• Risk Assessment
• Pre-sentencing reports
•  
• Road Traffic Accidents
• Workplace Accidents
• Trauma  
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD)
• Psychosomatic Disorders
•  Munchausen
• Malingering –exaggeration of symptoms assessments
• Psychopathology disorders
• Psychiatric Disorders
• Anxiety Disorders
•  Depression
•  Stress Disorders
• Victims of Crime and Abuse

Employment and work

 Stress Related Assessments

• Fitness to work
• Anxiety Disorders
• Sexual Discrimination Equality Act Assessments
• Bullying at work Trauma’s at work
• Return to work

Prison Law

 Psychiatric and Risk Assessments

 Psychiatric reports for Parol

• Parole Assessments Risk Assessments
• Mental Health Assessments
• Categorisation Assessments Appeals

Immigration Cases  and Asylum Related Reports                                                                       

• Sexual Abuse
• Mental Capacity Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders
• Deportation and its impact on families Risk Assessments
• Diagnosis of Mental Health and treatments  
• Victims of Torture and Abuse
• Trafficked Victims

Court experience

150-200 court reports per year

5-10 court appearances per year.

Time frame for delivery of reports

1-3 Weeks from Appointment. 

UK regions covered

Dr Rajpal regularly assess clients nationwide or at  consulting rooms that are in

Harley Street, London

and

in Bristol.

   Home visits

and

Prison visits undertaken

Appointments for medico-legal services are available during the evenings and over the weekends.

Email             admin@drpawanrajpal.com

Languages spoken and understood          English Hindi  Punjabi  Urdu

Professional details

Dr Pawan Rajpal

 MBBS, DPM, MRCPsych, PGDip (Mental Health Law)Qualified in 1996

   Registrations and licensing

General Medical Council (GMC)  Registration no:5208953 Date of Registration 24-Jan-2003

For more information on our services, please take the time to look through our website, or give us a

Call 08001182363.

  or

Email :drrajpal@drpawanrajpal.com

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