Expert Witness Journal Issue 66 April 2026 - Flipbook - Page 72
Medicolegal Expert
Witness Services
Agewise
Medicolegal
Experts
Medico-Legal Consultancy
Medicolegal Expert Witness Services (MEWS) is a specialist medico-legal consultancy providing
independent, CPR Part 35-compliant expert evidence across the UK.
Agewise Medicolegal Experts provide geriatricians, old age psychiatrists, general
practitioners and elderly care nursing experts to instructing solicitors and barristers
to assist the Courts in matters of liability, causation, condition and prognosis,
professional negligence, personal injury and issues around mental capacity and in
particular testamentary capacity.
Why Instruct MEWS
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Our consultants, GPs and nursing experts all have a long experience of working in
the NHS and are fully up to date in current practice. Dr Dan Lee is the Principal
Geriatrician and has over 20 years of working as an NHS consultant in the Royal
Free Hospital, London, a busy London teaching hospital, as well as working in
community based multidisciplinary frailty teams. He now works in the Cleveland
Clinic London as a consultant on the Acute Medical Assessment Unit.
UK-wide coverage with flexible appointment availability
CPR Part 35 trained experts – structured, defensible reports
Balanced claimant & defendant portfolio ensuring independence
Complex injury specialists – brain injury, spinal injury & polytrauma
Transparent fees & reliable turnaround times
Direct access to senior clinicians – no delays, no gatekeepers
Our Expert Reports
Our medico-legal reports are:
Fully CPR Part 35 compliant
Clearly structured with summarised conclusions and costings
Prepared for claimant, defendant or single joint instructions
Designed to withstand legal scrutiny in contested cases
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All our clinicians have many years of experience in managing acute illness and
disability in older people as well as experience of producing medicolegal reports.
They have also all also received formal training in medicolegal report writing. In
addition, we have subspecialist expertise in life expectancy estimation, dementia,
depression, mental capacity, care home standards of care and stroke. We take
instruction both nationally and internationally and will assess clients in their own
residence should they be too frail to travel to our private rooms.
Physiotherapy
Dr Dimitrios Sampanis PhD MSc mCSP mHCPC - Dr Sampanis is a Chartered Physiotherapist
and HCPC registered expert witness with a PhD in Neuroscience, specialising in traumatic brain
injury, spinal cord injury and stroke rehabilitation. He has completed numerous medico-legal
assessments and reports for litigation and insurance matters.
Dietetics
Rebecca McManamon (MNutr, RD, HCPC-Registered) - Rebecca McManamon is an HCPC
registered Dietitian and experienced medico-legal expert specialising in clients with complex
needs following brain and spinal injury, polytrauma and cerebral palsy. She prepares expert
reports for claimant, defendant and joint instructions.
Contact: Ruth Kriegel
Telephone: 020 7117 2551 | Email: admin@agewiseml.co.uk
Website: www.agewiseml.co.uk
Address:
London Office, 184 Southstand
Highbury Stadium Square
London, N5 1FJ
Contact
Telephone: 07896 730253
Email: enquiries@mewservices.org
Website: mewservices.org
Alternate Address:
Cardiff Office
10 Heol Y Felin
Cardiff, CF5 4BT
Medicolegal Expert Witness Services
12 Minerva Way, Barnet, EN5 2FJ
Dr Emma Reynolds
Dr Duncan Dymond
MD
FRCP FACC
Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist
FESC
DClinPsy., PgDip, C.Psychol., AFBPsS;
Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists (SRCN)
Consultant Cardiologist
Dr Duncan S Dymond has been a consultant cardiologist at St
Dr Emma Reynolds is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist specialising in the
assessment and rehabilitation of adults with acquired brain injury and neurological
conditions. She works across both NHS and independent practice.
Bartholomew's Hospital, now a part of Barts Health NHS Trust
since 1987.
He has been undertaking expert witness and medicolegal work
Dr Reynolds has extensive experience in medico-legal work and provides expert
neuropsychological reports for solicitors’ firms and medico-legal agencies. She
receives instructions from both claimant (approximately 55%) and defendant
(approximately 45%) representatives and prepares around 90 reports per year. She
regularly acts in cases involving personal injury and clinical negligence.
for more than 12 years and has completed his Cardiff University
Bond Solon expert Witness course.
Dr Dymond currently completes 1-2 medicolegal reports per
Areas of Expertise
week, for personal injury and medical negligence, with roughly a
Dr Reynolds has specialist expertise in the neuropsychological assessment of adults
with the following conditions:
60/40% split claimant/defendant.
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He has also completed expert witness work for the General
Medical Council, the Medical Defence Union and the Crown
Prosecution Service as well as accepting private instructions
directly for solicitors. He has also provided mediolegal
opinions for cases in Singapore.
Traumatic brain injury
Stroke
Encephalitis
Hypoxic brain injury
Alcohol and substance-related brain injury
Neurodegenerative conditions (including Alzheimer’s disease and vascular
dementia)
Medico-Legal Assessments
Dr Reynolds offers medico-legal assessments in London and nationwide. Domiciliary
assessments can be arranged where clinically appropriate.
T:
020 4580 1397
E: medicolegal@harleycardiology.com
Email: ereynolds@neuropsychologyclinic.co.uk
Telephone: 07719 273 123
Website: www.neuropsychologyclinic.co.uk
W: www.drduncandymond.com
34
Circus Road, St Johns Wood, London, NW8 9SG
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