Dr Brown is an accomplished Consultant Pharmacist and medico-legal expert with more than two decades of experience across community pharmacy, clinical governance and pharmacy leadership. Holding a PhD in Medicinal Chemistry, he combines academic expertise with extensive front line and managerial practice, giving him a uniquely comprehensive understanding of medicines, pharmacy regulation, and safe clinical practice.

Dr Brown provides expert witness services to the legal profession, law enforcement and regulatory bodies. His expertise covers a wide range of pharmacy-related legal issues including medication errors, adverse drug events, care-home medicine management, controlled drug handling, toxicology, drug-related impairment, unlawful injection cases, pharmaceutical governance failures, and the safe procurement, storage and administration of medicines. He is experienced in both civil and criminal matters and is instructed by prosecution and defence teams alike.

Dr Brown routinely prepares high-quality expert reports, desktop case reviews, and causation analyses, with a strong reputation for clarity, impartiality, and fast turnaround. His work is grounded in current professional standards, evidence-based practice, and deep knowledge of how medicines are used in real-world settings.

Dr Brown has experience in Court and has been praised in judgements whereby he has excelled in his opinion, forensic and evidentiary report writing.

Dr Brown has extensive experience working with cases relating to:

• Medical errors / Negligence:
  – Wrong drug, dose or formulation supplied
  – Failure to identify drug interactions or contraindications
  – Inadequate counselling (e.g. not warning about side effects)
  – Labelling or dispensing errors
  – Failure to check allergies or patient history
• Adverse drug reaction (ADRs):
  – Whether an ADR was foreseeable and preventable
  – Whether monitoring (e.g blood tests for warfarin, lithium, clozapine) was sufficient
  – Whether the prescriber or pharmacist acted within accepted standards
• Toxicology and drug overdose:
  – Accidental overdoses
  – Poisoning cases
  – Interpretation of toxicology results
  – Assessing whether a supplied medication contributed to an overdoses of death
• Controlled drugs (CD) and drug misuse:
  – Diversion or misuse of controlled durgs
  – Prescription fraud
  – Compliance with controlled drug  regulations in paharmcies
  – Methadone or buprenophine dosing errors
  – Misuse of medicines in prisons or care homes
• Regulatory/professional misconduct:
  – Pharmacist fitness to practise investigations (FtP)
  – Compliance with professional standards
  – Adequacy of record-keeping
  – Standard operating procedure (SOP) adherence
• Product liability:
• – Defective medicines of medical devices
  – Proper use of medications
  – Adequacy of manufacturer labelling
  – Off-label use implications
  – Patient counselling responsibilities
• Pharmacy board disciplinary actions:
  – Defending pharmacists against license suspension/discipline
  – Interpreting pharmacy regulations
  – Reviewing alleged violations
• Medical malpractice:
  – Prescribing errors by physicians
  – Administration errors by nurses
  – Hospital medication system failures
  – Long-term care facility issues

Dr Brown’s produces mainly desktop reports, but has availability within 2 weeks, if required on a case by case basis with a report turnaround time of 4-6 weeks.