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Medico-Legal Reports and Expert Witness Services
We are a partnership of medical experts and legal experts dedicated to providing the highest quality medico-legal reports and professional legal costing services.
We take instructions on a huge variety of cases and specialise in complex high value cases, including where Traumatic Brain Injury and / poly trauma have been sustained, and where a range of expertise might be required.
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We thrive on the greater involvement we have in assisting our clients to find the right medico-legal experts to report on and progress their cases and pride ourselves on our personal service.
Our legal costs team prepare bills of legal costs in the most complex cases and will handle all costs aspects of recovery, bringing them to final resolution either by skilled negotiation or representation upon detailed assessment.
Our team is your team – here for you every step of the way.
So whether you are a solicitor or agency in need of medico-legal experts or professional legal costing services, or you are a medical expert seeking to join our partnership of expert witnesses and establish a thriving medico-legal practice, get in touch.
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High Pines, Little Aston, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, B74 3BA