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Dr Sohom Das

Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist MSc, MRCPsych, MBChB, BSc
Claimants and DefendantsCriminal CasesHome AppointmentsRemote AppointmentsFace to Face AppointmentsPrison Visit Appointments15+ Patients

Medico-Legal Experience

Dr Das has been preparing medico legal reports for over 13 years. He regularly prepares high-quality reports covering a number of psychiatric issues for a variety of courts as listed above.

Dr Das has written over 500 reports and can opine on breach of duty, causation, and condition and prognosis relating to clinical negligence matters.

He has produced reports in various different countries and jurisdictions including Canada, Australia and Gibraltar. Dr Das has prepared 40 reports in relation to the Greenfell Tower fire.

Dr Das has extensive experiences in cases associated with:

Civil court work

  • High value and complex personal injury and
    clinical negligence cases
  • Historical sexual abuse
  • Psychiatric consequences of wide range of
    incidents and accidents:
    – Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
    – Issues at work
    – Physical disability

Criminal court work

  • Fitness to plead
  • Defendants’ mental state at the time of offences
  • Mental health disposals:
    – Hospital orders
    – Restriction orders
    – Community orders
  • Mental health defences:
    – Not guilty by reason of insanity
    – Diminished responsibility
    – Automatism
  • Capacity to form intent/ mens rae
  • Risk assessment – including violence, sexual offending and risk of reoffending
  • Assessment carried out on male, female and adolescent defendants in secure hospitals, prisons and court

Other areas of expertise

  • Coroners Court reports
  • Mental health review tribunal reports
  • Parole Board reports – including giving oral evidence
  • Immigration tribunal reports
  • Family court reports
  • Employment tribunal reports – including grievance investigation assessments
  • Formal capacity assessments

Dr Das’s availability is 10 days and has a report turnaround time of 1-2 weeks.

Clinical Experience

Dr Das has a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree, a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree.

He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and an approved by the Secretary of State under Section 12(2) of the Mental Health Act 1983.

Dr Das became a MRCPsych member in 2011. As the Co-founder of the North London Medico-Legal forum, a Continued Professional Development Group for psychiatric medico-legal experts.

Dr Das works as the Lead Psychiatrist for the Harrow Crown Court and Willesden Magistrate’s Court Liaison & Diversion Scheme. He works part-time in his prison and court roles in order to dedicate a significant proportion of his working week towards developing his passion in medico-legal work.

Publications

In Two Minds
A book outlining my professional memoirs, Stories of murder, justice and recovery from a Forensic Psychiatrist. Published by with Sphere Publishers; a subsidiary of Little, Brown/Hachette. It has sold over 15,000 copies.

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Venues

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