Medico-Legal
Dr. Reardon has been undertaking Expert Witness reports in Medico-Legal cases since 1996. He has acquired wide experience in this area of practice, most commonly acting for the defence but, occasionally for the plaintiff. He has also been instructed in criminal cases and by insurance companies when a Geneticist's opinion was required. Several instructions are ongoing from the NHSLA (NHS Litigation Authority - UK) and the Clinical Indemnity Scheme in Ireland. Dr. Reardon has given several invited seminars to UK legal firms as part of their continuing professional development programmes. Moreover, he has participated as an invited speaker at the Annual National Conference of the Professional Negligence Bar Association.
More recently he has given the annual Medical Law Lecture at the behest of Hailsham Chambers in October 2014, and has recorded podcasts on Clinical Genetics for Medulaw during 2015.
Areas in which Dr. Reardon has accepted instruction include;
- Chromosomal disorders and investigations
- Foetal screening and antenatal diagnosis
- Application of genetic tests in diagnosis and practice
- Obstetrics and birth injury
- Paediatrics and neonatology
- Paediatric diseases
- Congenital abnormalities
- Malformation syndromes
- Medical genetics
- Cerebral palsy
- Mental handicap
- Neurology and neurosurgery
- Craniosynostosis and skull malformations
- Inherited deafness and hearing impairment
- Syndromology
- Advances in our understanding of hereditary diseases
- Non Accidental Injury
If you wish to engage Dr. Reardon as an Expert Witness you can contact his secretary on +353 1 4096069 or by using our Contact Form.