Employment and workplace expert witness reports
Reports on disability under the Equality Act 2010, fitness to work, capability, ill-health retirement, and psychiatric injury arising from bullying, harassment, or workplace stress.
These reports are most often prepared as part of our adult psychiatry, male psychiatry, and female psychiatry work.
Conditions and presentations
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ADHD and reasonable adjustments
Diagnosis and adjustments under the Equality Act.
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Adjustment disorder
Following identified workplace events such as restructure or grievance.
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Alcohol misuse and capability
Where dependence intersects with disciplinary or capability processes.
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Autism spectrum and reasonable adjustments
Communication and sensory adjustments at work.
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Bipolar affective disorder and disability status
Including capability and reasonable adjustments.
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Fitness for work
Including phased return and adjustments.
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Generalised anxiety disorder
Including impact on attendance and performance.
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Harassment and bullying sequelae
Psychiatric injury linked to identified treatment.
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Ill-health retirement
Permanence of incapacity for the contractual role.
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Including the need for reasonable adjustments.
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Panic and social anxiety
Where avoidance affects workplace function.
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PTSD after workplace assault or vicarious trauma
Including emergency services and frontline workers.
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Recurrent depression
With implications for fitness to work and disability status.
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Whistleblowing impact
Psychiatric injury following protected disclosure.
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Work-related stress and burnout
Where workplace conditions are alleged to have caused or worsened illness.
Typical questions for the expert
- Does the claimant meet the Equality Act definition of disability?
- Is the psychiatric injury attributable to identified workplace events?
- What adjustments would be reasonable, and what is the prognosis for return to work?
Reports provided
Reports for the employment tribunal, occupational health, and ill-health retirement panels.
Experts owe their primary duty to the court under CPR Part 35 and equivalent procedural rules.
Related practice areas
Cases in this area often overlap with our work on personal injury and civil litigation, clinical negligence, and mental capacity and court of protection. You may also want to read our full list of practice areas.
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