PROFESSOR PAUL BRENNAN
MEDICO LEGAL AWARD FOR SERVICES TO NEUROSURGERY REPORTS 2025 PROFESSOR PAUL BRENNAN BMedSci (Hons) MB BChir
Website: www.neurosurgicolegal.com
(Cantab) PhD (Edin) FRCS (SN)
Medico-legal experience
I provide expert reports for clinical negligence and personal injury claims across the range of general elective and emergency neurosurgical practice. I have particular expertise in head injuries, cervical spine fracture and surgical neuro-oncology. I have received criminal and civil instructions from solicitors across the UK, including from the Procurator Fiscal and from Police Scotland. I have attended court as an expert. Areas of medico-legal expertise Adult elective and emergency neurosurgery Head injury Brain tumour diagnosis and management Cauda equina syndrome Medico-legal training I I enrolled on the Bond Salon Expert Witness Certificate through the University of Aberdeen. This includes 4 days of training, in Excellence in report writing, Courtroom Skills, Cross Examination and Law and Procedure. I attended Inspire MediLaw’s two day Expert Witness Training (Dec 2018) which is accredited by the Royal Society of Medicine and topics covered included: • Expert Evidence: the law and practice • Report Writing and the process of a claim • Data protection for medico-legal experts • GMC workshop on ‘acting as a witness in legal proceedings’ • Addressing the legal issues – breach of duty, causation, condition and prognosis, medical advice and consent. • The use of evidence in giving evidence • Expert witness meetings and Court room skills
Mobile: 07966 541 880 Email: paulbrennan@neurosurgicolegal.com Alternate Email: paul.brennan@ed.ac.uk