Medico-Legal

Dr Spencer is experienced in undertaking psychiatric assessments for the purpose of preparing CPR35-compliant Expert Medical Reports, as an independent Expert Witness for the Court.

He has given expert medical evidence in the High Court; has also undergone specialist Expert Witness training by Bond Solon and has passed the Cardiff University Law School Bond Solon Expert Witness Certificate course.

Dr Spencer has co-organised the Cambridge Annual Medicolegal Conference for a number of years now; and he is a member of the Medico-Legal Special Interest Group of the British Pain Society.

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Further information

Please visit psychiatry-expert.com for further information about the expert medico-legal services provided by Dr Spencer.


Correspondence address for all medico-legal work:

Mrs Elizabeth Sanalitro (PA/Secretary to Dr Spencer)

Postal address: 95 Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1AW

Medico-legal consultations available at:

  • Online

  • Central Cambridge

  • Central London


    Experience

    Dr Spencer is Consultant Psychiatrist at the First Response Service - the front-line NHS mental health service covering Cambridgeshire and Peterborough - and the Pain Management Centre, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is Chair of the Chronic Pain Special Interest Group of the European Association for Psychosomatic Medicine. He qualified from the University of Cambridge, and completed his training in Cambridge and Edinburgh. He has lectured at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh, and he has practised as a Consultant Psychiatrist since 2008. He was awarded the Donald Cohen Fellowship by the European Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2007, the Clinician Scientist Fellowship by the MRC in 2008 and was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 2016.

    Dr Spencer has a particular interest in the interactions that can exist between physical and psychological conditions, particularly in chronic pain and psychological trauma. He has worked in NHS multidisciplinary pain clinics, has served as a Council Member of the Pain Section at the Royal Society of Medicine, is a Senior Fellow of the London Pain Forum, a member of the British Pain Society, the British Neuropsychiatric Association and the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine and a founding member of the Functional Neurological Disorder Society. In June 2024 he was elected Chair of the Chronic Pain Special Interest Group of the European Association for Psychosomatic Medicine. Dr Spencer has prepared CPR Part 35 compliant expert witness reports for the Court since 2012, in personal injury and clinical negligence work. He has been a co-organiser of the Cambridge Annual Medico-Legal Conference since 2014.

    Since March 2020 Dr Spencer has worked as Consultant Psychiatrist at the mental health First Response Service covering Cambridgeshire and Peterborough (which he joined in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to work on the front-line in mental health during the time of crisis), where he has broad and varied clinical exposure to a range of psychiatric presentations across the lifespan.