The Oaktree Clinic

At Oaktree Clinic, we have highly skilled & experienced psychiatrists & psychologists with years of experience in writing medico-legal reports and giving evidence in court for civil & criminal proceedings.

Our experience in expert witness work includes:

Employment Issues: Discrimination cases, unfair dismissal, occupational assessments.
Personal Injury: Assessments for post traumatic disorder following injury.
Medical Negligence: Psychological disorders secondary to medical negligence, expert witnesses in cases.
Immigration Related Issues: Assessment for PTSD, victims of abuse & torture.
Mental Capacity: Wills & probate, independent expert opinion for treatment.
Substance Misuse: assessment of level of substance misuse, dependence & its effects for child custody cases.
Criminal cases.
Family Law cases.
Section 18 approved.

Our experts include:

Dr Meetu S. Sonsati
Expertise: a wealth of clinical experience in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry, and is able to produce comprehensive, high quality medical reports.
Dr Sonsati has medico-legal experience in the assessment, diagnosis & treatment of patients with complex neuropsychiatric, physical and mental health issues. She undertakes reports regarding issues related to family law, personal injury, employment cases, immigration related cases, assessment for PTSD, clinical negligence, assessment of mental capacity for wills and probates, independent expert opinion for treatment, dangerousness, assessment of level of substance misuse and fitness to plead. Also Mental Health Act assessments, treatment under provisions of MHA, reports for the MHRT, and attendance in court as a professional witness. Dr. Sonsati is Section 18 approved.

Dr Alfred C. White
Expertise: Neuropsychiatry, laison psychiatry, occupational health, brain injury.
Dr Alfred White undertook his senior training in Birmingham and obtained his MD in 1981. He was appointed an NHS consultant in 1978 and started the Liaison Psychiatry Unit at University Hospital, Birmingham. He acts as a medical advisor for the General Medical Council and has been an examiner and now is a Royal College of Psychiatrists assessor. His other interests include liaison psychiatry, especially head injury and medical negligence.

Dr Gautam Bettegowda
Expertise: General adult psychiatry, substance misuse psychiatry.
Dr Bettegowda is a highly skilled consultant in general adult psychiatry with specialist accreditation in substance misuse. In addition to management of drug and alcohol related problems he has experience of treating a wide variety of mental health conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders, schizophrenia and mental health issues related to work stress and relationship problems. His special interest is in treating mood disorders.

Dr Suma Ujrebail
Expertise: Child & Adolescente Psychiatry, Consultant Psychiatrist.
Dr. Ujrebail was appointed as an NHS consultant in 2014 having developed and commenced the CAMHS for children and adolescents with learning disability in Walsall. She has a wide range of clinical experience in assessment and treatment of children & young people with emotional problems of varied complexity using evidence based psychological treatments including CBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy, systemic interventions and pharmacological treatments. Apart from being a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, she has a PG diploma in psychological medicine from Cardiff University. Her areas of special interest include psychotic disorders, mood disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD and autism spectrum disorder.

Dr Tarun Kuruvilla
Expertise: Old age consultant psychiatrist.
Dr Kuruvilla is a consultant psychiatrist specialising in memory assessments, early diagnosis and early intervention for Dementia. He has a special interest in brain scans with access to the latest scanning technology such as 3 Tesla (high resolution) MRI and PET (both glucose and amyloid) scans which facilitate ruling out or the very early diagnosis of Dementia. He is funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) as a principal investigator for several clinical trials for newer treatments for dementia and is joint clinical lead for Division 4 of the NIHR: West of England Clinical Research Network. He has extensive experience in mental capacity assessments such as capacity to appoint a lasting power of attorney (LPA), capacity to manage finances, court of protection reports, capacity to make a will, etc.

Dr Sasha Hvidsten
Expertise: Consultant child & adolescent psychiatrist with a special interest and in eating disorders.


Oaktree Clinic provides a wealth of expertise in different fields of psychiatry, and a swift service with reports ready within 10 days of appointment.