Expert Witnesses

Join our experts directory

The Birth Injury Expert Hub is a unique and specialist platform connecting vetted medicolegal and non-medicolegal experts with solicitors handling birth injury and maternal injury cases.

A solicitor advising a client

If you’re an expert who specialises in this field, being a member of the Birth Injury Expert Hub helps lawyers to find you.


The number of claims arising from maternity negligence is, sadly, at an all-time high. Lawyers on both sides of the claim process, as well as Coroners, are under considerable time and cost pressures. 

We know first-hand that lawyers find sourcing the right medicolegal expert genuinely hard. Solicitors need someone who was practising at the time of the incident, has capacity, and has the right sub-specialist experience with no conflicts of interest. 

Experts on the other hand face their own burden, including often being approached to advise on a matter that falls outside their expertise, or managing multiple enquiries when they don’t have capacity or where they have a conflict of interest. All these things make the entire process slow, frustrating, and costly for everyone.

Birth Injury Expert Hub offers a solution to both problems. We bring solicitors and vetted medicolegal experts together, matching cases to your practice and waitlist times, in one trusted space.

These cases don’t just need medicolegal experts, many cases require evidence from experts who can assist with quantum, including:

  • Care and case management
  • Occupational therapist: equipment, aids, adaptations and daily living needs
  • Physiotherapist: future physio, hydrotherapy and intensive therapy programmes
  • Assistive technology: eye-gaze systems, communication aids, environmental controls and computer access
  • Accommodation expert: cost of a suitable property, adaptations and running costs
  • Transport/vehicle expert: specialist wheelchair accessible vehicles and conversion costs
  • Educational psychologist: special educational needs, school placement and Education, Health, and Care Plan (EHCP) issues 
  • Forensic Accountant: for complex financial losses

Why join Birth Injury Expert Hub?

Help lawyers find you

Be found by the firms and individuals that instruct on birth injury claims, and receive instructions that match your skills and experience.

Be part of a community of birth injury specialists

Connect with fellow witness experts, solicitors, barristers and coroners who work on birth injury cases. Birth Injury Expert Hub is the only directory dedicated to this field, bringing together everyone involved in maternity and neonatal claims.

Access to a unique resources library

Find the guidance that applied at the time of the pregnancy or birth. Our library holds NICE, RCOG, and NMC documents dating back to 1998, including many no longer publicly available, such as the 1998 Midwives Rules.

Birth Injury Expert Hub – a unique hub that connects solicitors with the right expert, at the right time.

The Hub was developed by Nikki Khan (midwifery expert witness and clinical negligence solicitor), Dr Gary Hartnoll (Consultant Neonatologist), and Dr Clare Tower (Consultant Obstetrician) who, as practitioners, understand these cases from both sides of the instruction.

Apply to become a Member and Subscribe

The application process is simple and straight forward. You will complete a form that asks a series of questions about you, your expertise, as well as other questions such as your turnaround times and geographic area. You’ll be asked to submit your Terms & Conditions, an example redacted report, and details of any expert training you may have completed. 

Every application we receive will be carefully considered and vetted by our founders before your membership is approved. We aim to respond to your application within a week. Only once you have been successfully vetted will you charged. 

There are two levels of Membership of the Birth Injury Expert Hub to choose from.

Expert Directory – £20+VAT per year

Standard Membership

You will receive the following benefits:

  • Included: Individual profile and listing on our directory.
  • Included: Case matching: you will be matched only to cases within your remit and availability, in a birth-injury-specific network. Reducing the back and forth between experts and solicitors. This service is available to Solicitors with a Premium subscription.
  • Not included: Access to NICE Guidelines and relevant material library: our unique resources library includes NICE, RCOG, and NMC guidelines in PDF going back to 1998, including documents no longer publicly available, such as the 1998 Midwives Rules for example.

Expert Directory – £50+VAT per year

Premium Membership

You will receive the following benefits:

  • Included: Individual profile and listing on our directory.
  • Included: Case matching: you will be matched only to cases within your remit and availability, in a birth-injury-specific network. Reducing the back and forth between experts and solicitors. This service is available to Solicitors with a Premium subscription.
  • Included: Access to NICE Guidelines and relevant material library: our unique resources library includes NICE, RCOG, and NMC guidelines in PDF going back to 1998, including documents no longer publicly available, such as the 1998 Midwives Rules for example.

Try free for 14 days on all plans.

Apply to join

Frequently asked questions

How do I join?

Complete the application form on our website. It asks for your CV and experience and for a redacted report, plus your terms and conditions (including fees).

What is the vetting process?

Every expert is personally vetted by one of the directors. We may ask for further evidence such as training or CPD. We aim to respond within about a week.

How much does membership cost?

Standard: £20 a year. Premium: £50 a year, which adds access to the guidelines library. You pay once your application has been vetted and approved.

How does case matching work for experts?

A solicitor or coroner sends us the case details. We identify which specialties the case needs, then suggest named experts based on exact specialty, dates of clinical practice, turnaround time and capacity. Fees are taken from the terms and conditions you upload with your application.

My specialty doesn't quite match the heading you contacted me under. Can I still join?

Yes. Our directory uses broad groupings (for example, chronic pain specialists sit under the anaesthetics umbrella), but on the form you describe your own specialism in your own words, and it is fully searchable. Searching “chronic pain specialist”, for example, will find you whichever group you sit in.

I haven't written an expert report before. Can I join?

The directory is for practising or new expert witnesses, so we can only list experts with medico legal experience.

Which specialties are you looking for?

We cover every stage of a birth injury claim:

  • Breach of duty: midwifery, obstetrics, neonatology, neonatal nursing, fetal medicine, obstetric sonography, obstetric anaesthetics, general practice, general paediatrics, paramedic and ambulance services.
  • Causation: paediatric neuroradiology, paediatric neurology, neonatology, obstetrics, placental and perinatal pathology, neuropathology, clinical genetics, haematology, paediatric metabolic medicine, paediatric endocrinology, microbiology, brachial plexus surgery, paediatric neurosurgery.
  • Condition and prognosis: paediatric neurology, neurodevelopmental paediatrics, life expectancy, paediatric neuropsychology, paediatric orthopaedics, gastroenterology and nutrition, respiratory medicine, ophthalmology, audiology, child psychiatry.
  • Other: care and case management, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, educational psychology, assistive technology, orthotics, seating and mobility, accommodation, employment, forensic accounting, Court of Protection costs, urogynaecology, colorectal surgery, adult psychiatry, adult psychology.