Areas of medico-legal expertise
Each area below sets out the clinical questions he can answer, the structure of the report, the usual timescales and the questions instructing agents most often ask.
Where an instruction falls outside his clinical areas of practice, or a conflict is identified, this is promptly confirmed so that another expert can be approached without delay. The process is set out under instructing Dr Qureshi.
Civil and personal injury
- Personal injuryPsychiatric injury reports for pursuers and defenders in Scottish personal injury actions.
- PTSD and psychological traumaDiagnosis, causation and prognosis in post-traumatic stress and adjustment disorders.
- Anxiety and depression (including adjustment disorders and phobic anxiety)Assessment of depressive and anxiety disorders arising from accident, assault or workplace events.
- Chronic pain and somatisationPsychiatric opinion on chronic pain, somatic symptom disorder and medically unexplained symptoms.
- Alcohol and substance misuseAddiction psychiatry opinion on dependency, relapse risk and treatment needs.
- Personality disordersOpinion on personality disorder, its interaction with alleged injury and its effect on function.
- Clinical negligenceBreach of duty and causation opinion in psychiatric and mental health negligence claims.