Paediatric medico-legal reports
Non-Accidental Injury and Child Abuse Claims: Expert Reports
Non-accidental injury cases turn on independent, careful expert evidence. We provide paediatric expert reports on suspected non-accidental injury, assessing whether the clinical and imaging findings are consistent with the accounts given. For non-accidental injury we use court-experienced consultants. You see the expert’s CV before you instruct. The report is written to the expert’s CPR Part 35 duty to the court. We act for instructing solicitors on either side.
Overview
What non-accidental injury means in a case
Non-accidental injury describes injuries thought to have been inflicted rather than caused by an accident. The expert’s role is an independent assessment of the findings; whether injury was inflicted is a matter for the court.
Why it matters legally
Care proceedings, criminal proceedings and civil claims
These cases arise in family care proceedings and in criminal proceedings, and occasionally in civil claims.
Reports we produce
The reports a non-accidental injury case relies on
Experts who assess it
The specialists on a non-accidental injury case
A consultant paediatrician assesses the clinical picture and a paediatric radiologist provides fracture dating and skeletal survey interpretation.
Case-type context
Where these cases sit
These cases sit in family care proceedings and criminal proceedings, and occasionally in civil claims.
FAQ
Non-accidental injury: common questions
By assessing whether the pattern, ageing and mechanism of the injuries are consistent with the account given, and by considering alternative explanations.
Yes, an independent differential diagnosis is central to the expert’s role, considering medical explanations as well as inflicted injury.
The expert weighs medical explanations and accidental mechanisms as part of the differential diagnosis, not only inflicted injury.
Yes. Our court-experienced consultants report independently in family care proceedings and in criminal proceedings.
Yes. The assessment is independent, and whether injury was inflicted is a matter for the court.
Instructing on a non-accidental injury case?
Send your case details and we will allocate a court-experienced consultant within 48 hours, with a same-working-day quotation and the CV before you instruct.