Medico-Legal

Our clinic director Dr Christopher Norris offers our medico-legal service. We are able to produce reports on personal injury, expert witness reports, and assessment / costing of rehabilitation.

Dr Norris has attended courses on Excellence in written evidence and witness familiarization (PDF) provided by Bond Solon / Cardiff University Law School. He began his Medico-legal career in the 1980's as an expert witness on behalf of the late Sir Edward Grayson, author of 'Sport and the Law', and is listed as an expert on the physiotherapy expert witness site provided by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.

Dr Norris produces reports in the following areas :

• Musculoskeletal (MSK) injury
• Personal injury
• Spinal pain
• Exercise & leisure injury
• Sports injury
• Acupuncture & dry needling
• Rehabilitation following fractures / orthopaedic intervention
• Road traffic accident (RTA)
• Whiplash
• Repetitive stress injury (RSI)
• Fitness to work
• Work related upper limb disorder (WRULD)
• Overuse injury
• Physiotherapy
• Rehabilitation assessment & costing
• Pain & neurology related to injury

Dr Christopher Norris is a physiotherapist with 25 years clinical experience. In addition to being a clinician, he is a post-graduate lecturer and external examiner to several universities and the author of leading Physiotherapy textbooks.

He has been lead author in several research studies looking at exercise, back pain, and rehabilitation published in peer reviewed scientific journals.

Reports

For insurance companies and individuals we can assess clients and produce a report detailing the extent of injuries and an estimation of the cost and timescale of rehabilitation. In many cases we do not charge for this service.

For Solicitors we can produce Witness of Fact and Expert Witness (Witness of Opinion) reports which fully comply with Civil Procedure Rules (CPR). Depending on the complexity of the case and the extent of the medical records these reports are charged at a 'per report' rate or 'hourly' rate. We will produce a draft of the report and revise it in consultation with all parties prior to finalising.

Download a sample report here (PDF).

Qualifications

Dr Christopher Norris holds both professional and academic qualifications. He is a member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (MCSP), the Society of Orthopaedic Medicine (MSOM) and the British Acupuncture Council (MBAcC). He holds a doctorate (PhD) in spinal rehabilitation from Staffordshire University and a masters degree (MSc) in exercise science from Liverpool University.

He is the author of textbooks on Sports Injuries, Back pain, and acupuncture. Norris has also written several books on exercise technique, which can be viewed here

Download Dr Norris' CV here.

Membership of professional bodies

Christopher Norris is a member of the following bodies:

• Health professions council (HPC)
• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
• British Acupuncture Council (BAcC)
• Society of Orthopaedic Medicine (SOM)
• British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine (BASEM)
• Medico-legal association of Chartered Physiotherapists (MLACP)
• Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Occupational health and Ergonomics (ACPOHE)
• Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sport and Exercise Medicine (ACPSEM)
• Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (AACP)

Please contact us by email at info@norrisassociates.co.uk in the first instance.