Our team of 30+ consultant psychologists at Tranquil House are able to offer a comprehensive service to the legal profession in providing 'expert' opinion, reports and treatment.

Collectively, this group of experts are able to provide a wide range of professional expertise in all areas of litigation to include Care Proceedings (public and private law), Criminal Proceedings, Personal Injury, Medical Negligence and Employment Law; as well as for Tribunals, to include Mental Health and Education.

All our 'Expert' psychologists have held, or continue to hold, substantive positions in the NHS and/or other statutory bodies as Clinical, Forensic, Educational, Counselling and Neuro- psychologists.


All our expert Psychologists have:

  • Chartered status
  • Membership of the BPS
  • Health Professionals Registration
  • Valid Practising Certificates and PHI

Our 'Expert' assessment report service ensures:

  • Sourcing of appropriate 'expert' consistent with preliminary enquiry
  • Availability of curriculum vitae
  • Reports filed within agreed time frames
  • Assessments undertaken in an appropriate professional environment
  • Competitive rates agreed at the time of instruction.


Family Proceedings
Care, Placement, Residence and Contact to include assessment of:

Adults, children and families
'Risk' to include sexual, violence, substance misuse, NAI
Cognitive functioning and parenting potential
Litigation capacity
Personality (Axis 1)
Attachment
Psychological health and psychological disorders (Axis 2)
Need for therapeutic intervention; potential/timescale for change

Criminal
To include assessment of:

Sexual risk
Risk of violence to include domestic violence
Substance misuse
Reoffending
Personality and psychological disorders (Axis 1 and 2)
Recommendations to assist risk reductions and rehabilitation.
Cognitive functioning and suggestibility
Litigation capacity and fitness to plead
Personal Injury
To include Assessment of:

Psychosocial functioning as a result of injury eg PTSD
Psychosocial functioning as a result of medical negligence
Psychosocial functioning as a result of work related incident/trauma
Comprehensive neuropsychological assessment of acquired brain injury
Therapeutic needs and recommendations for psychosocial rehabilitation
Litigation capacity
Disability discrimination

Tribunals - Eg: Educational Statementing
To include assessment of:

Cognitive functioning
Developmental disorders eg autism, ADH(D), dyslexia, dyscalculia
Social functioning
Eg: Mental Health
To include assessment of:
Formulation of presenting problems
Risk to self and others
Therapeutic needs
'Pathways' for (re)-habilitation