Practice Manager: Sue Brown
Phone: 07903 505631
Professor Brendan T Monteiro MBBS LRCP MRCS FRCPsych CertMR
Honorary Professor of Health and Society, University of Salford
Consultant Psychiatrist
Professor Brendan Monteiro is a Consultant Psychiatrist attached to Jacobs Clinic, providing Adult Autistic Spectrum Condition Diagnostic and Assessment Services.
Professor Monteiro has more than 35 years’ experience as an expert witness, including the preparation of psychiatric reports and giving evidence in court, in Personal Injury cases, including the psychological effects of stress at work. He also undertakes industrial injury cases, where clients have been psychologically affected by hearing loss and Tinnitus.
Clients can be assessed at clinics in Bury and Salford, in hospitals, special hospitals, secure units, prisons – and remotely using Video Technology in any venue in England, Wales and N.Ireland.
Professor Monteiro has provided psychiatric reports on cases including:
- Personal Injury
- Stress at Work
- Psychological injuries following Clinical Negligence
- Psychological Effects of Acquired Deafness (including Tinnitus, including Military NIHL)
- Forensic Psychiatry Reports - Deaf and Hearing people referred by Courts/Solicitors/Prisons
- Mental Health of Deaf Adults involved in Child Protection and Family Proceedings
- Residential Institutions Redress Board (Ireland) psychological injuries following physical and sexual abuse experienced by Deaf people (Ryan Report)
- Reports to HSE (Health Service Executive) and Irish Courts.
- Assessments using Zoom Video Technology (April 2020–date)
Appeared before Mental Health Tribunals (MHT) and in Court to give expert evidence.
Relevant CPD training activity includes:
- Participation in a Peer Group of Experts in providing Medico-Legal reports.
- Chaired worldwide conferences on MH and Deafness/ABI/ASC.
- Keynote Speaker at Conferences in Europe, Japan, US, South Africa/Australia/NZ.
- Keynote Speaker, Criminal Justice Management Conference (October 2010).
- Certificate in Medico-Legal Reporting (Relevant Modules) – Bond Solon (February 2013).
- Medico-Legal training courses provided by Bond Solon, prior to 2020.
- Bond Solon Annual Expert Witness Conference (2020 - 2024).
- Psychological Aspects of Pain, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors (September 2020).
- Pain and Medico-Legal Course, Expert Witness Institute (EWI) (October 2020).
- Bond Solon, Annual Expert Witness Conference (November 2020).
- Bond Solon, The Law & The Expert’s Role from Instruction to Settlement (Nov 2020).
- Introduction to ICD-11 Webinar (May 2021).
- ETN Grange Annual Medico-Legal Conference (September 2021 - 2024).
- Historical, Scientific and Clinical Perspectives on Complex PTSD and other ICD-11 Trauma Related Disorders (Jan 2022).
- Personal Injury Update (June 2022).
- Expert in Report Writing, Bond Solon (July 2022).
- Bond Solon Annual Expert Witness Conference (Nov 2022).
- RCPsych Annual Congress (July 2023).
- British Association of Psychopharmacology – Annual Conference (July 2023).
- Bond Solon Masterclass in Report Writing (Feb 2024).
- National ASC Training, RCPsych (March 2024).
- Autism Clinical Interview for Adults – Newcastle University (June 2024).
- Psychosocial Psychiatry (November 2024).
- ADHD for General Adult Psychiatrists, RCPsych online event (Nov 2024).
- British Association of Psychopharmacology Masterclass online conference (Nov 2024).
- Bond Solon Annual Expert Witness Conference (Nov 2024).
- RCPsych SIG Autism and Neurodiversity, Brighton (December 2024)
- RCPsych – Webinar on Autistic Spectrum Conditions (February 2025)
- Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry, Royal College of Psychiatrists, Edinburgh (March 2025)
- Working as an Expert Witness in the Irish Legal System, Bond Solon (May 2025)
- Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Congress (2023, 2025)
- Essential Skills Expert Witness Course for Pain Management and Psychiatric Clinicians (12, 13 March 2026)
- Bond Solon – Discussion Between Experts (16/3/26)
Professor Monteiro is a member of the Expert Witness Institute, and Council Member of Manchester Medical Society.
Click here to view Professor Monteiro's medico-legal CV.
