Consultant psychiatrist · Civil expert witness · Glasgow
Psychiatric expert witness reports for solicitors across Scotland
Dr Yameen Qureshi is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Glasgow, dually accredited in General Adult and Addiction Psychiatry, providing independent medico-legal reports to pursuer and defender agents, insurers and regulatory bodies throughout Scotland.
Instruction at a glance
- Registration
- GMC 4771627
- Accreditation
- Civil expert witness, Aberdeen
- Instructed by
- Pursuer and defender agents
- Assessment
- Glasgow, Scotland-wide or video
- c.150
- 4771627
- Aberdeen University, 2021
- FRCPsych, 2021
Who instructs Dr Qureshi
- Solicitors acting for pursuers and for defenders
- Insurers and claims handlers
- Professional regulatory bodies
- Medical defence organisations
- Trade unions
- Occupational health providers
Areas of expertise
Reports are prepared across civil, regulatory and criminal work. Each area sets out the questions that can be answered, the structure of the report and the usual timescales.
- Personal injury — Psychiatric injury reports for pursuers and defenders in Scottish personal injury actions.
- PTSD and psychological trauma — Diagnosis, causation and prognosis in post-traumatic stress and adjustment disorders.
- Anxiety and depression — Assessment of depressive and anxiety disorders arising from accident, assault or workplace events.
- Chronic pain and somatisation — Psychiatric opinion on chronic pain, somatic symptom disorder and medically unexplained symptoms.
- Alcohol and substance misuse — Addiction psychiatry opinion on dependency, relapse risk and treatment needs.
- Personality disorders — Opinion on personality disorder, its interaction with claimed injury and its effect on function.
- Clinical negligence — Breach of duty and causation opinion in psychiatric and mental health negligence claims.
- Fitness to practise — Health assessments and reports for the GMC, GDC, NMC and other regulatory bodies.
- Mental capacity and testamentary capacity — Contemporaneous and retrospective capacity opinion, including capacity to instruct.
- Employment and occupational health — Work-related stress, ill-health retirement and employment tribunal psychiatric evidence.
- Mental health tribunals — Section 22 approved reporting for the Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland.
- Criminal law — Fitness to plead, diminished responsibility and mental state reports for criminal courts.
- Family law — Parental mental health and child welfare psychiatric reports for family actions.
- Immigration and asylum — Psychiatric reports for immigration tribunals, including Article 3 mental health issues.
Credentials
- MBBS, University of London
- 2001
- MRCPsych, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- 2005
- MSc Alcohol and Drug Addiction
- 2010
- FRCPsych, Royal College of Psychiatrists
- 2021
- Certificate of Accreditation as a Civil Expert Witness, University of Aberdeen
- 2021
- Section 22 approved, Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003
- Current
- GMC specialist register — General Adult and Addiction Psychiatry
- Current
- Health Examiner and Medical Supervisor to the General Medical Council
- Current
- Medical Advisor to the General Dental Council
- Current
- Law Society of Scotland Expert Witness Directory
- Listed
Full detail is set out in Dr Qureshi's professional background and CV.
How instruction works
1. Availability and conflict check. Before anything is agreed, the parties are checked against previous treating and reporting involvement. Instructions are declined where a conflict exists.
2. Letter of instruction. The instructing agent confirms the issues to be addressed, the party represented, the court or tribunal and any deadline, and encloses the available records.
3. Assessment. The examinee is seen in person in Greater Glasgow, at an agreed venue elsewhere in Scotland, or remotely by secure video where that is clinically appropriate.
4. Report and follow-up. A report is issued to the instructing agent, with supplementary reports, joint reports and attendance at proof available on request.
The full process, including fees and timescales, is set out under instructing a psychiatric expert witness.
Coverage across Scotland
Assessments are carried out in person across Greater Glasgow, in Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland by arrangement, and remotely by secure video where suitable. See locations and coverage for consulting arrangements and the courts served.
Instructing Dr Qureshi
Instructions are accepted from pursuer and defender agents, insurers, regulatory bodies and occupational health providers. A conflict check is carried out before any instruction is accepted.
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