Customised Advice and Opinions
Tailored to your specific needs so you get the exact information you need to advance your case.
Lucid Legal Medicine
Complex Made Clear
Legal Professionals receive expert advice and court-ready medico-legal reports
- Clear court-ready reports and expert statements, delivered rapidly
- Jargon free for easy understanding
- Peer reviewed for greater authority
- Literature review service
- Strategic support to maximise impact of data
- Guidance to refute opposition testimony and opinions
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Thousands of reports and opinions provided since 2007
Expert team of Senior Forensic Physicians (not lab technicians or pathologists)
Our experts are respected as authorities by State Coroners, Legal Aid, Directors of Public Prosecution and Defence Lawyers.
An easier way to get the expert medico-legal information and advice you need
As a legal professional looking for every possible advantage for your case or your client, are you:
- Struggling to get the medical reports you need from hospital doctors… and want an independent medical team that can provide clear, jargon-free, peer reviewed reports and expert opinions with strict timelines and affordable fees?
- Unable to interpret complicated medical reports… and want an expert to break down the details (including toxicology and related effects on human behaviour), so you can better use the data?
- Unsure how to best present your medical data… and want expert help to develop your strategy, formulate your argument and not risk missing key information?
- Having trouble developing questions… and want help to refute testimony and address opposing expert opinion?
- Concerned you currently lack comprehensive expert opinion… and want a second opinion or holistic analysis to develop alternative strategies that broaden your options and chances of success?
- Worried your medico-legal reports may not be adequately respected in court… and want an expert, peer reviewed opinion that carries more weight?
- Require a literature review to confirm the basis of expert opinion or understand the scientific references provided? Expert medical evidence may quote particular scientific papers that are not easily understood or accessed by the lay audience. We can access and summarise references to best inform your approach.
Many legal professionals have the same concerns. That’s why we created a Free 10-Minute Case Assessment to answer your questions and give you clarity around your options.
Why other legal professionals choose
Lucid Legal Medicine for expert opinions and court reports
The right peer reviewed medico-legal reports – provided in a timely manner and with ongoing support – can be the key to success. However, without this expert information and advice, legal professionals often struggle to make their case.
Here are just some of the things we do differently to help legal professionals:
Fast Turnaround
Getting timely information and opinions (especially when many hospital doctors are reluctant to cooperate) can be challenging. And delays jeopardise cases. Our proven processes ensure you receive the reports and opinions you need – accurately and efficiently.
Authoritative and Influential
Many medico-legal reports provide inadequate arguments that can easily be undermined. Our comprehensive, peer reviewed reports carry authority that is influential in winning more cases.
Clear, Jargon-Free Language
You don’t have the time to wade through complicated technical reports written to impress out of touch academics. Our expert team breaks down the data into a quick-read, easy-to-understand report that gives you the information you need – fast.
Court Ready
Our peer reviewed statements meet the ‘Expert Code Of Conduct’ and all legislative requirements for the court process. We are experienced in providing in-person, video or telephone evidence.
Strategic Support to Maximise the Impact of Your Data
While other medico-legal experts may give you the data you ask for, we help you interpret the data to best understand and present your case.
Questions that Advance
Your Case
Part of putting your best case forward is finding the weaknesses in the legal arguments. We help you refine questions that expose weaknesses in opposing opinion and bring focus to the elements of the matter.
Holistic Assessment Maximises Legal Options
Our diverse team has the skills and experience to examine the whole picture (immediate and proximate context) and provide holistic reporting, so you have more options and chances for success. We will identify relevant experts required that may be targeted with specific questions, saving you time and money and improving outcomes.
Frontline Clinical Expertise
Our team of clinicians have post graduate qualifications and medical experience in toxicology, forensics, custodial and legal medicine. Laboratory scientists focus on analysis more than effects, while pathologists focus on the cause of death rather than the pathway to death. This is a point of difference from our service.
Decades Of Collaborative Experience
Our advice and reports have been of value in thousands of criminal and coronial cases over the past 17 years, a collaborative medical experience of 96 years, with 40 years in the forensic sphere.
More reasons to choose
Lucid Legal Medicine
We have extensive formal training and experience
We are medical professionals and forensic experts with extensive knowledge and experience in medico-legal matters. We have provided reports in thousands of criminal and coronial cases.
We provide a rapid response that is immediately useful
We understand you are busy, and that you need a result or outcome as quickly as possible. We will incorporate this into our delivery process and will provide you with a realistic timeframe during our first consultation.
We analyse the bigger picture, from both a medical and legal perspective
Our approach combines medical expertise, legal acumen, and a commitment to present the most comprehensive assessment possible. This integrated strategy enables us to provide keen practical judgment and unique insights to maximise clarity of case presentation and inform decision-making.
We are versatile clinicians, not single-discipline laboratory scientists
Medical matters and toxicology reports are best explained by clinicians with decades of experience in forensic and clinical medicine. We have extensive experience in the clinical space, within diverse locations such as emergency departments, general practice, intensive care and even watch houses. This broad experience means you get a comprehensive report giving you the best possible outcome.
We are broadly-experienced physicians, not pathologists
Most medico-legal opinions require an analysis of effects on a living human body, not a deceased one. The focus of many legal questions relate to when a person was alive, such as the effects of a drug or of their clinical care. We use our broad experience as clinicians to provide a relevant and prospective clinical opinion particularly for coronial matters.
Our solutions are customised to your desired outcome, and backed by research literature
We understand that each case is unique, and we tailor our services to meet the specific requirements of our clients. This personalised approach ensures that we address the individual needs and concerns of each case effectively. We also use peer-reviewed literature and other research resources to provide weight to our formal opinions and services.