Expert Witnesses

Highly experienced Expert Witness with experience as an Emergency care Expert to leading law firms, and public inquiries.

 

Nursing Expert

A nurse expert witness and legal nurse consultant is a licensed, registered nurse who is knowledgeable on the relevant standards of care for the nursing profession. The nurse expert performs a critical analysis of the medical records for a case and arrives at an opinion on whether or not the standard of care for nursing was breached. This expert may be called on to provide testimony regarding any deviation from the standard for medically related legal cases

  • Nursing Negligence,
  • Pressure Sores,
  • Wound care,
  • Wound Management,
  • Hospital Acquired Infection,
  • Falls in Hospital,
  • Negligent Nursing Care,
  • Drug Errors,
  • Nursing Home Care,
  • Nursing Competence,
  • Complications of Treatment,
  • Inadequate Nursing Care,
  • Negligent Community Nursing Care,
  • Inadequate Nursing Supervision and Personal Injury

 

Paramedical Expert

An Emergency Care expert witness and legal Emergency Care consultant who is licensed and registered with HPCSA is knowledgeable on the relevant standards of care for the profession. The Emergency Care expert performs a critical analysis of the medical records for a case and arrives at an opinion on whether or not the standard of care for Emergency Care was breached. This expert may be called on to provide testimony regarding any deviation from the standard for medically related legal cases.

  • Unauthorised advertising
  • Over-servicing of patients
  • Criminal convictions
  • Improper relationships with patients
  • Improper conduct of practitioners
  • Operational procedure without patient’s permission or consent
  • Disclosure of information in regard to patient without his / her permission
  • Incompetence in regard to treatment of patients
  • Excessive fees charged/overcharging
  • Insufficient care towards patients
  • Racial discrimination
  • Rude behavior towards patients
  • Prescriptions to already addicted patients
  • Perverse incentives and kickbacks

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