Dr Gupta is a highly experienced Consultant Psychiatrist whose expert opinion is regularly sought in complex medico-legal cases across a broad range of legal domains, including; criminal law, family law, immigration and asylum, employment law, personal injury and psychological trauma, public law and Mental Health Act matters.

Dr Gupta has developed particular clinical and medico-legal expertise in the assessment and management of adult ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, and personality disorders.

Dr Gupta is Bond Solon trained. During his time as an expert witness, he has provided testimony at Court a number of times and is well versed in Courtroom protocol and process.

Dr Gupta is instructed by both Claimant and Defendant in clinical negligence and personal injury case.

Dr Gupta has extensive experience in cases associated with:

Criminal Law

• Section 12 (2) approved reports
• Fitness to plead
• Fitness to stand trial
• Mens rea, capacity
• Insanity defence (McNaughton)
• Disposal (Hospital order)

Family Law

• Parental assessments – risk assessments
• Social care/contact with children proceedings
• The Care Act 2014
• Risk and ability to protect a child
• Mental capacity assessment
• Domestic violence, emotional and sexual
  abuse
• Personality disorders
• Munchausen & munchausen by proxy
• Adult ADHD/asperger’s/autism
• Perinatal and post natal disorders
  (psychiatric)

Mental Health Law

• Assessments under The Mental Health Act 1983
• Civil issues
• Forensic psychiatry issues

Public Law

• The Human Rights Act 1998
• Mental Capacity Act 2005
• Assessment of vulnerable adults and children
• Testamentary capacity
• The Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DOLS)

Immigration/Asylum Cases: In children and adults

• Victims of torture and abuse
• Trafficked victims: Sexual abuse
• Mental capacity
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Risk assessment

Employment Law

• Work related stress
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Fitness to work/return to work
• Employment tribunals/Disability
• Discrimination Act 1995/Equality Act 2010
• Psychiatric injury:
  – Depression
  – Anxiety
• Sexual harassment
• Bullying
• Racial discrimination

Housing Matters

• Possession
• Eviction
• Disability and Equality Act 2010

Personal Injury

• Road traffic accidents
• Work place accidents
• Trauma sequelae
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
• Psychiarty injury due to medical negligence/clinical negligence
• Victims of crime and abuse
• Historic child abuse assessments
• Military claims
• Multi-track cases

Dr Gupta’s availability is 2 weeks and has a report turnaround time of 2-3 weeks.