Independent expert reports, assessment clinics, and the robust governance and administration that surround them. Expert led, across the niche and the complex.
Make an enquiryThe expert's duty is to the court, and it overrides any obligation to the person instructing or paying.
CPR 35.3Instructed by claimant and defendant alike. We decline where a conflict exists, and say why.
Every report is written and signed by the expert who formed the opinion. No ghostwriting, no delegation to a medical writer.
Clinic programmes and records handling built around group litigation, with the single complex instruction given the same attention. Neither is a compromise for the other.
Reports compliant with CPR Part 35 and Practice Direction 35, written to answer the question actually asked, whether that is breach of duty, causation, or condition and prognosis. Preliminary and screening opinions where you need to know quickly whether a claim is worth running.
Face to face examination with the report written from it. Where a group of claimants shares a common index event, or one alleged mechanism, the work becomes repeatable and schedulable, so we run it as a clinic programme rather than a queue of separate instructions.
The critical but laborious work that surrounds an instruction, done by a team that already handles service personnel medical records under Ministry of Defence contract. Records retrieval and sorting, bundle preparation and pre-screening, booking and chasing, formatting to your house requirements, and invoicing. Available on its own, without an accompanying instruction for a report.
Scope. We give breach of duty opinions only where the care in question falls inside the expert's own field and current practice, and we say so at the outset where it does not. We work in England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland run under different rules and we will say so rather than take the instruction. We do not undertake MedCo soft tissue reporting. Where a case falls outside what we can properly opine on, we will tell you at the letter of instruction stage, not after the records arrive.
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Practice DirectorAlun is the first point of contact for an instructing firm. Whether we can take a case, what it will cost, when you will have the report, and the conflict check run before any papers are accepted all come through him.
He is not a clinician and gives no clinical opinion. His background is thirty years of operational leadership across military and commercial security, including investigations and due diligence instructed by law firms, and an MSc in Security, Conflict and International Development.
MBChB MSc DTM&H PGCert MAcadMEd FRCA FIMC (RCSEd.) FFRRHHEd
Prehospital, retrieval and transfer medicine, anaesthesia and traumaConsultant Anaesthetist at East Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, and Consultant in Prehospital Emergency Medicine with the North West Air Ambulance. Holds GMC subspecialty accreditation in prehospital emergency medicine.
Fellow of the Faculty of Remote, Rural and Humanitarian Healthcare, and Deputy Chair of the Clinical Standards Committee at the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, both at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Humanitarian deployments including the Sierra Leone Ebola response, Ukraine, and the UK-Med field hospital in Gaza, for which he was awarded the Humanitarian Medal.
MBBS MSc MRCGP DCMM DMM FAWM FEWM
General practice, environmental extremes, toxicology and traumaGeneral practitioner, with a career-long theme of expedition, humanitarian and austere medicine delivered globally across high risk, hostile and inhospitable domains.
Senior clinical and advisory roles with the International Committee of the Red Cross, including board and strategic committee involvement, the HALO Trust and Medics4Ukraine. Course design and quality assurance in CBRN for UK Defence, the World Health Organization and the ICRC. Appointed MBE for training the Syrian White Helmets in Iraq. Sits on the UK working group on frostbite and non-freezing cold injury.
| Hand selected | Experts are recruited and onboarded, not listed. Vetting and reference checks before joining. |
| In current practice | Substantive clinical practice in the field they opine on, with a licence to practise and full registration. |
| Bond Solon trained | Formal expert witness training, funded by the practice as a commitment to professional standards and to the quality of the panel. |
| Corporate indemnity | Professional indemnity extending to medico-legal expert work, carried by the practice. |
| Demonstrable scope | A stated scope of expertise, with instructions outside it declined. Full CVs and court experience come with the terms of business. |
| Conflicts checked | Checked at instruction, before the papers are accepted. We take claimant and defence instructions, so it is run as a step and recorded. |
Meridian Medicolegal is a trading name of ASG Rescue Ltd.
Operated under ASG Rescue's ISO 9001:2015 certified quality management system, with document control, a risk register and tracked turnaround against deadline.
Run as a step before papers are accepted, not left to memory. We take claimant and defence instructions, so it is checked every time and recorded.
Retrieval, sorting, bundle preparation and pre-screening, run under documented compliance and governance. Cyber Essentials Plus, and registered with the Information Commissioner's Office with a named Data Controller.
Meridian runs as its own practice. The expert's duty to the court is unaffected by anything else the company does, and instructions are declined where that could be questioned.
You will get a prompt, direct answer on whether we can accept the instruction, what it will cost and when you will have it. If we are not the right experts for the matter at hand we will say so then, not after the records arrive.