FORENSIC HEALTHCARE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Expert Witness Conference 28th November 2003
- Expert Witness Conference 9th November 2001
"Beyond reasonable doubt-Medical experts In the criminal court" RSM meeting 29th October 2003
Job Titles:
- Consultant in Clinical Forensic Medicine
- Consultant in Forensic
Dr Alistair Irvine is a Consultant in Forensic and Legal Medicine with over 35 years experience as a practitioner of Clinical Forensic and Legal Medicine, he continues to work as a Forensic Medical Examiner for Cleveland Police, and also for 35 years worked in General Medicine as a principal in General Practice.
His relevant qualifications are: -
Job Titles:
- Medical Director
- FHC Medical Director / Consultant Forensic Physician - Dr Jason Payne - James
Dr Payne-James is a forensic physician with a range of clinical and research interests in forensic medicine and related specialties who has published widely as a researcher, an author and an editor and collaborated in research projects with organisations such as the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
He qualified in medicine in 1980 at the London Hospital Medical College and has undertaken additional postgraduate education to higher degree level at Cardiff Law School, the Department of Forensic Medicine & Science at the University of Glasgow and with the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland.
Dr Payne-James is a forensic physician and is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, Barts & the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, University of London, UK. He is an external Consultant to the National Policing Improvement Agency and to the National Injuries Database and is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine.
His forensic medicine clinical and research interests include healthcare of detainees, deaths, harm and near misses in custody, torture, drugs and alcohol, wound and injury interpretation, sexual assault, neglect, non-accidental injury, restraint and use of force injury, police complaints, and age estimation. Dr Payne-James advises a number of government agencies and has undertaken reviews of healthcare in relation to deaths or near misses in custody for a number of bodies including police services, the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the Prison & Probation Ombudsman. He gave evidence at the Baha Mousa Public Inquiry.
Dr Payne-James has co-edited, co-authored and contributed to a number of books including the Encyclopedia of Forensic & Legal Medicine; Forensic Medicine: Clinical & Pathological Aspects; Symptoms and Signs of Substance Misuse (1st & 2nd editions); Artificial Nutrition Support in Clinical Practice (1st and 2nd editions); Symptoms and Early Warning Signs; Dr Apple's Symptoms Encyclopaedia; Medicolegal Essentials of Healthcare (1st and 2nd editions); Colour Atlas of Forensic Medicine. He is lead author on the forthcoming 13th Edition of Simpson's Forensic Medicine; he co-authored the new Oxford Handbook of Forensic Medicine and co-edited both Age Estimation in the Living and Current Practice in Forensic Medicine.
Medical Director Jason Payne-James made President-elect for the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine (www.fflm.ac.uk) FHC re-locates to larger offices in Southminster and appoints its first Legal Administrator/BPP Apprentice Ellis Lillywhite. FHC experts providing opinions in assorted historic abuse allegations and high-profile group litigation cases.
Dr Green was engaged by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 2008 to visit Libya with three other colleagues to provide a workshop on the prevention of torture to healthcare professionals working in places of detention.
Dr Green was engaged by the Council of Europe Committee for the Prevention of Torture or Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in 2008 to act as an expert during a periodic visit to Sweden.
Dr Green has chaired the Council of Europe Independent Medical Advisory Panel to the National Preventive Mechanism project for 18 months during which time Dr Green organised the first European conference for doctors who work in detention monitoring in their home countries.
Dr Green part of the training team for the doctors deployed in zones of conflict by the International
Dr Green is a lecturer to Police Officers, Social Workers, Crown Prosecutors, fellow doctors, and others on various aspects of Clinical Forensic Medicine, and takes an active role in training Forensic Medical Examiners.
Dr Green has been actively involved in Forensic Medicine since 1975 when he was a lecturer in Forensic Medicine at The London Hospital Medical College. He has conducted over 50,000 medicolegal examinations in the course of his career.
Dr Green was a member of the Departmental Medical Working Group on Substance Misuse, that produced Guidelines for Clinical Management. He has read papers on a variety of issues in his speciality, and contributed to The Law Society reference book, Active Defence.
Dr Green is an examiner for London and Barts School of Medicine and Dentistry for the MSc in Forensic Medical Sciences.
Dr Green is well versed in the recording and interpreting of injuries and the presentation of such material to courts and other tribunals.
Dr Walker has worked in the field of clinical psychology, providing psychological assessment and intervention services to children and adults since 1996. Before this, Dr Walker worked in a number of therapeutic and educational roles with children and adults with learning disabilities or special educational needs.
Dr Walker has knowledge and is familiar with the Istanbul Protocol of 1999.
Dr Walker obtained a BSc (Hons) (University of Surrey) in Psychology; Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (University of Exeter); and Postgraduate Diploma (University of London) in Applied Clinical Neuropsychology.
Dr Walker also completed foundation training in Systemic Family Therapy (University of Luton). Dr Walker qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2002. The British Psychological Society awarded me Chartered Psychologist status in 2005.
As a consultant clinical psychologist, Dr Walker works therapeutically with adolescent offenders and provides assessments and interventions that assist them in reducing risk to self and others and in improving emotional well-being. Dr Walker provides supervision and consultation to officers working with young offenders and mental health professionals and makes recommendations regarding the most appropriate ways to work with young people to reduce offending and mental health risks. Dr Walker has also worked in a similar way with adult offenders in the community, in prison and within conditions of medium security. His clinical experience with adults has brought him into contact with issues such as depression, anxiety, eating and body image disorders, obsessive and ritualistic behaviours, phobias, PTSD and personality disorder. Having worked with children, Dr Walker offered assessment, intervention and advice on a range of issues including behavioural and conduct problems, elimination difficulties, the psychological impact of abuse, child protection, poor self-esteem and self-image, autistic spectrum disorder, family functioning and attachment difficulties. Dr Walker has worked extensively in mental health services for older people and has provided numerous assessments and individual and group interventions for clinical difficulties such as anxiety, depression, loneliness, stroke and dementia.
Dr Walker's specialist clinical neuropsychology qualification and experience allow me to assess, intervene and advise on a range of issues including acquired brain injury, learning disability, stroke, the effects of drug use upon brain functioning, dementias of old age and working age adults, anoxic brain injury, factitious disorders and malingering. Dr Walker is able to select and use various assessment methods to ascertain an individual's strengths and weaknesses and to help the individual and those involved to understand what the person is capable of in specific contexts (e.g. education, work, parenting etc.). This experience also allows Dr Walker to provide advice, recommendations and interventions that help the individual to adapt their environment and strategies so that, where possible, the individual can achieve meaningful goals by utilising their strengths.
Dr Walker published one paper in the field of adolescent emotional well-being and presented this at a conference for Child and Educational Psychologists. Dr Walker is a visiting lecturer at the universities of Exeter, Bristol and Plymouth and has taught trainee clinical psychologists on issues such as Forensic Clinical Psychology, violence, sexuality and sexual offending. Dr Walker is also a senior tutor with the Association for Psychological Therapy offering specialist training to mental health professionals.
Since becoming a Chartered Psychologist, Dr Walker has prepared over two hundred formal psychological reports and an additional fifty reports specifically for court purposes. Dr Walker is trained in expert witness skills and passed the Cardiff University Bond Solon expert witness skills training, a component of which was an assessment of him being cross-examined. Furthermore Dr Walker has experience of giving evidence to the Criminal Courts.
Dr Walker has also prepared a number of expert reports for Family Court and he has attended a number of professionals' meetings to discuss recommendations from the reports. Areas of assessment and report writing experience include:
Offending behaviour (including antisocial/ seriously irresponsible behaviour)
Risk towards self (self-harm; suicide; vulnerability; exploitation)
Risk towards others - including violence and sexual offending
Intellectual and memory functioning
Neuropsychological assessment
The impact of mental ill health/ learning disability upon functioning including parenting abilities
Attachment and parenting
Personality assessment
False confessions
Fitness to plead
Malingering
In terms of his current therapeutic practice, Dr Walker runs a private clinic and assesses and treats individuals with psychological difficulties following traumatic experiences. Dr Walker uses a combination of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR).
Dr Short is a Bachelor of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy. Dr Short obtained first class honours in biology from the University of Durham and for Dr Short's Doctorate, researched blood groups in body fluids whilst at the Forensic Science Unit, University of Strathclyde. Dr Short has a PhD in Forensic Biology plus 19 years experience as a Court reporting officer.
From 1986 until 1997 Dr Short was employed by the Forensic Science Service, based at their Chepstow laboratory but with one year's detached duty at their Aldermaston Laboratory to learn DNA profiling analysis in 1987. Dr Short established DNA profiling at the FSS Chepstow laboratory and was part of a team providing national DNA profiling services when the new amplification methods were introduced in 1993.
Since 1997 Dr Short has provided an independent service to the legal profession in the examination of biological evidence. Dr Short has prepared over 550 reports for the Defence and provided evidence at Court on numerous occasions. She is happy to attend case conferences with barristers either in person or via video conferencing.
Dr Short is a registered Forensic Practitioner in Human Contact Traces (DNA, body fluids and blood pattern analysis); registrant number 02814. Dr Short is a Member of the Forensic Science Service.
Job Titles:
- Case Administrator / Expert Witness Department
Mike was employed as a forensic scientist initially at the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratory from 1978 and continued when the laboratory merged with the UK Forensic Science Service in 1996 until its closure in 2012. During this time he was Principal Scientist in FSS toxicology from 2006 until closure.
Mike's experience includes more than 20 years as a Forensic Toxicologist and 10 years in Forensic Drugs casework.
Whilst at the MPFSL and FSS he was a Home Office Authorised Analyst for Road Traffic Act casework.
He has dealt with a wide array of casework which included exposing a bogus Defence "expert", investigating a series of sexual assaults by a male nurse who had used sedative drugs to incapacitate patients in hospital and a number of child poisonings, amongst many others.
Mike is a committee member of the United Kingdom and Ireland Association of Forensic Toxicologists http://www.ukiaft.co.uk/about/committee and a member of :
The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists
The Society of Forensic Toxicologists
LTG
He is also an Associate Member of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Mike has lectured widely during his career to:
Police
CPS
Medical personnel (including on Diploma in Medical Jurisprudence training days)
Fellow forensic professionals
Internationally
He has provided advice to the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs
His court experience includes attending many 100s of courts including the Old Bailey on numerous occasions, other crown courts, Coroners and Magistrates courts and Court Martials
Mike is internationally known for his expertise within the field of Drug-facilitated Sexual Assault (DFSA aka ‘Date-rape') and is co-author of the only 2 papers investigating in detail the incidence of DFSA in the UK.