Dr Sohom Das

Dr Das qualified from the University of Edinburgh with bachelor degrees in pharmacology as well as medicine and surgery. He has since obtained a masters degree in psychiatric research and is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Dr Das has a wide experience of assessing and treating people with mental illnesses, and specialised experience in mentally disordered offenders in a variety of settings, including courts prisons and secure psychiatric units. He regularly prepares medico-legal reports for a variety of courts, a including criminal court, civil court, immigration tribunals and Mental Health Review Tribunals and has authored over 1,000 criminal and civil court reports in his career.

Dr Das was lead psychiatrist for the NHS under the Harrow Crown Court and Willesden Magistrate’s Court Liaison & Diversion Scheme. This involved writing brief court reports within a very short turn-over at court (often within an hour or 2), as well as formally advising the court about major psychiatric issues (including fitness to plead).

As a forensic psychiatrist, Dr Das is experienced in reporting on a wide range of psychiatric damages to adults, adolescents and children. For civil court matters, Dr Das specialises in high value personal injury cases such as clinical negligence (i.e. breach of duty, causation, condition and prognosis, psychiatric consequences as a result of incidents and accidents (e.g. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, issues at work, physical disability, historic sexual abuse cases), immigration detention assessments and capacity assessments.  For criminal court matters, Dr Das has a broad range of experience in mental health matters such as fitness to plead, mental health defences and capacity to form intent, risk assessments of offending and assessments in psychiatric hospitals, prisons and immigration centres.