Professor Ray Bull
BSc MSc DSc CPsychol FBPsS FAPS
Forensic Psychologist
Professor Ray Bull is Emeritus Professor of Forensic Psychology at the University of Leicester in England. In 2022 he was informed that he had become a 'Distinguished Member' of the American Psychology-Law Society for his 'unusual and outstanding contribution to psychology and law'.
Among the cases/inquiries he has been involved in are ‘The Lockerbie Inquiry/Bombing of flight Pan Am 103’ for The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission; ‘The Litvinenko Inquiry’; ‘The Longcare Inquiry’.
The Government's 2002 'Achieving Best Evidence' guidance was drafted by a team led by Professor Bull and Professor Davies.
In 2018 he accepted the invitation to be a member of the small ’Steering Committee’ writing the extensive guidance document on investigative interviewing as recommended to the United Nations by its ‘Special Rapportuer’ Professor Juan Mendez.
In October 2017 he was appointed an ‘Assessor’ (ongoing) for the new National Dutch Register of Expert Witnesses (Nederlands Register Gerechtelik Deskundigen).
In 2015, a large police organisation commissioned Professor Bull to review research relevant to how and when police officers who witness a fatal shooting should recall.
In 2004/5 he led a small team commissioned by the Scottish Executive to write guidance documents on the taking of evidence on commission and on the use of a supporter for vulnerable witness testimony.
Investigative interviewing - Professor Bull has undertaken expert witness instructions in around 150 cases and has testified in court on over 50 occasions, including in appeal courts. His expertise is in how well suspects, victims and witnesses are interviewed.
Caes can be undertaken on behalf of either claimant or defendant or as a Single Joint Expert.
