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Paediatric medical expert witnesses for solicitors

Court-ready, CPR Part 35 medical reports for cases involving children and young people. Quoted the same working day, with the expert’s CV before you instruct.

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  • Same-working-day quotation
  • CVs before you instruct
  • Expert allocated within 48 hours
  • GMC and HCPC registered
  • CPR Part 35 independence
  • RCPCH-qualified panel
  • Level 3 safeguarding

What we do

Paediatric Experts is a specialist panel of expert witnesses for solicitors in matters involving children and young people. We find the right paediatric specialist for the case, send their CV before instruction, and deliver a medico-legal report written to the expert’s CPR Part 35 duty to the court.

We cover all matters involving children, not paediatric medicine alone: children’s clinical negligence and birth injury, child personal injury, family proceedings, criminal cases involving non-accidental injury, and inquests. One named case manager handles the matter from first call to final report.

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Case areas we cover

Birth injury and cerebral palsy Birth injury and cerebral palsyCausation, condition and prognosis, and care-needs evidence.Learn more HIE and child brain injury HIE and child brain injuryHypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy and related injury.Learn more Non-accidental injury Non-accidental injuryIndependent, court-experienced consultants where required.Learn more Paediatric clinical negligence Paediatric clinical negligenceIncluding sepsis and failure to recognise deterioration.Learn more Child personal injury Child personal injuryAccidents and injuries to children and young people.Learn more Family proceedings Family proceedingsCare proceedings and private law children matters.Learn more Inquests InquestsIndependent medical evidence for coronial proceedings.Learn more Immigration age assessment Immigration age assessmentMerton-compliant assessment for unaccompanied minors.Learn more Housing disrepair Housing disrepairRespiratory evidence linking damp and mould to a condition.Learn more

What instructing us gives you

Court-ready CPR Part 35 reports

Written to the expert’s duty to the court and ready to serve.

A timescale you can plan around

Standard reports in 2 to 4 weeks; urgent in 1 to 2 weeks where needed.

One named case manager

A single point of contact from first call to final report.

Funding that fits the claim

Legal Aid (LAA), conditional fee agreements (CFA) and private funding.

UK-wide coverage

Experts across the country, with remote assessment where it suits.

Support after the report

Addenda, joint statements and court attendance as the matter requires.

Experts and reports

Experts on the panel

Reports we produce

  • Liability, breach and causation reports
  • Condition and prognosis reports
  • Quantum, care and needs reports, including life expectancy in catastrophic injury
  • Screening and preliminary opinions on the merits
  • Single joint expert (SJE) reports

How instruction works

  1. 1EnquirySend us the case type and a short summary.
  2. 2Same-working-day quotationYou receive a costed answer the same working day.
  3. 3Expert within 48 hoursWe send the CV for you to assess before you instruct.
  4. 4InstructionYou instruct with cost, scope and timescale agreed.
  5. 5ReportStandard in 2 to 4 weeks; urgent in 1 to 2 weeks.
  6. 6After the reportAddenda, joint statements and court attendance.

A single named case manager handles each step.

Credibility and independence

Our medical experts are registered with the General Medical Council (GMC) and hold specialist-register status in their paediatric field; our psychologists are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Reports are written to the expert’s CPR Part 35 duty to the court, which the expert owes to the court rather than to the instructing party. The panel is RCPCH-qualified, and experts working on non-accidental injury matters hold Level 3 safeguarding training.

  • GMC-registered
  • HCPC-registered
  • RCPCH-qualified
  • Level 3 safeguarding

Funding

We work with the full range of funding routes used in children’s cases. We can quote against each, and remote assessment can keep costs proportionate where the matter allows.

Legal Aid (LAA)Legal Aid Agency funding for eligible children’s matters.
Conditional fee (CFA)Conditional fee agreements for civil claims.
Private instructionPrivately funded instructions, quoted on request.

Frequently asked questions

Yes. You receive the expert’s CV to assess suitability before you commit.

An expert is allocated within 48 hours of your enquiry.

Standard reports take 2 to 4 weeks; urgent reports 1 to 2 weeks where the matter requires it.

Yes. Every report is written to the expert’s duty to the court under CPR Part 35.

Legal Aid (LAA), conditional fee agreements (CFA) and private funding.

Yes, across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, with remote assessment where it suits the matter.

Consultant paediatricians, neonatologists, paediatric neurologists and radiologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists and psychologists, paediatric cardiologists and other paediatric specialists.

No. We act for instructing solicitors on either side. Our experts’ duty under CPR Part 35 is to the court, not to the instructing party.

Instructing on a matter involving a child?

Tell us the case type and we will quote the same working day.

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