MEDICO-LEGAL CURRICULUM VITAE

DR ALISON JANE HOSKINS

Bsc  DClinPsy  CPsychol  DipFamTh

Qualifications:

Psychology Honours Degree (Plymouth 1986)

Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology (Plymouth 1990)

Diploma in Family Therapy (London 1994)

Chartered Status, British Psychological Society (1992)

Professional

Association:

Member of the British Psychological Society

Career:

1986-7 Psychology Technician, Learning Difficulties

1990-6 NHS post, Adult Mental Health

1993-present Private Practice, Adults and Children

1996-present NHS Family Therapy Coordinator

1996-2000 Primary Care Psychologist

2000-present Director of Psycholegal Experts

Medico-legal Experience:

She has been involved in several hundred Personal Injury cases over the last 10 years and has given evidence in court. Much of her work has been on a joint instruction basis since Lord Woolf's Civil Justice Reforms of 1999. Since 2000 she has been the Director of Psycholegal Experts and as such supervises the report writing and Trauma Treatment work of their nationwide Clinical Psychologists.