Professor Leam A. Craig
Ph.D., C.Psychol, MEWI, MAE, FBPsS, FAcSS, is a Consultant Forensic and Clinical Psychologist and Partner at Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd. He is a Chartered and dual Registered Clinical and Forensic Psychologist. He is a Visiting Professor of Forensic Clinical Psychology at Birmingham City University, Professor Visiting Chair of the School of Psychology at the University of Lincoln, an Hon. Professor of Forensic Psychology at the Centre for Applied Psychology at the University of Birmingham, and Visiting Professor of Forensic Psychology, School of Social Sciences, UNCLan Cyprus. He has previously worked in forensic psychiatric secure services and consultancy to prison and probation services throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland, specialising in high‐risk, complex cases.
He has 30 years’ experience working as an expert witness having produced well over 2000+ psychology reports and given evidence in 250+ occasions heard before Magistrates, Family and Crown Courts, Military Courts Martial, Court of Appeal, Mental Health Review Tribunals, and Parole Boards. He has previously received instruction from the Salvation Army, Catholic and Church of England Dioceses, the Investigative Psychology Unit of the South African Police Service, the UK Government Legal Department (GLD), the Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC), Donart Film Czech Republic, the United States Air Force European Area Defence Counsel, the Family Protection and Juvenile Department of the Public Security Directorate, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, and the Cayman Islands Court of Appeal. In 2015 he co-authored a Ministry of Justice research report into the use of expert witnesses in family law and between 2016-2023 was appointed as Chair of the British Psychological Society, Expert Witness Advisory Group. He has chaired and contributed to six practice guidance documents for expert witnesses published by the British Psychological Society and two joint publications with the Family Justice Council on psychologist expert witnesses in family law. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and of the Academy of Social Sciences, a full member of the Academy of Experts, the Expert Witness Institute and listed on the BPS Register of Expert Witnesses. In 2013 he received the Senior Academic Award by the Division of Forensic Psychology for outstanding contributions to forensic psychology, in 2023 received the British Psychological Society, Practice Board, Distinguished Contribution to Practice Award, and in 2025 was awarded the BPS Division of Forensic Psychology, Lifetime Contribution to Forensic Psychology award for profound and sustained contributions to the field, across practice, leadership, and influence. He has over 130 academic publications, including fifteen books, with research interests including persons convicted of sexual and violent offences, offenders with personality disorder, forensic risk assessment and the use of psychologists as expert witnesses.
Roger Hutchinson
MSc CPsychol, AFBPsS, qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 1981, becoming a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in 1996. He was the Clinical Director of one of the largest Intellectual Disability Services in the UK leading the therapy and nursing team that designed Ash Green, which opened in 1996. The team won best patient environment, best Community Mental Health Team, and Forensic Team of the year between 2000 and 2003. He was involved in closing three long stay institutions between 1983 and 1996 by providing 400 inpatients with supported residence in the community; developed and led a community support team for women with an ID who were pregnant; a community based intensive support team for people with an ID who demonstrated a significant forensic risk, and a neuro-rehabilitation team for people who had experienced a traumatic brain injury.
He started and delivered a chronic pain service for people with a disability which became a regional clinic and contributed in developing the International Association for the Study of Pain guidelines for pain management which he presented at the World Pain Congress in 1996. In 1985 he was involved in bringing Snoezelen into the UK, led the initial research and edited Sensation and Disability (Hutchinson, & Kewin, 1994), lectured on multisensory approaches in intellectual disability, autism, pain, brain injury and with the elderly, until 2015 throughout Europe, Scandinavia, Asia, China, North America, and Australia. He organised the first World Snoezelen Congress in Sheffield and the second congress in Canada. He retired from the NHS in 2003 and joined the Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd.
He retired from the NHS in 2003 and joined the Forensic Psychology Practice Ltd. Since 1996 he has prepared over 2000 expert witness psychology reports in the context of family and criminal proceedings, and civil litigation that have been considered in Magistrate, Crown, Court of Protection, High and Appeal Court. He is instructed by the NHS Litigation Authority now called NHS Resolution.
He is a committee member of the British Psychological Society, Mental Capacity Advisory Group, and the Expert Witness Advisory Group, and the Clinical Director for an organisation that supports adults and older adults (personality disorder, mental health issues, dementia, and intellectual disability) in community residential settings who present a high risk of sexual and/or physical violence. He provides clinical oversight for an organisation that delivers Adventure Therapy within the Trauma Recovery Model for young people receiving crisis care as a consequence of the breakdown of a foster, adoptive or residential care placement, who present with behaviours of concern including violence and a risk of child sexual exploitation.
Preeti Chauhan
BSc (Hon), Higher Masters in Applied Psychology (Counselling), MBPsP, MBACP, is a BACP Registered Psychotherapist and an Applied Senior Child Psychologist who has been associated with FPP Ltd initially as an Assistant Psychologist and latterly as a Psychotherapist and Applied Senior Child Psychologist undertaking complex psychological assessments and therapy for adults and young people in the context of Family Proceedings and young people’s services. In the last four years, Preeti has been involved in the production of over 150 expert witness reports for both adults and young people.
Preeti’s areas of expertise include psycho-legal assessments of young persons and adults in the Context of Family Proceedings include: cognitive functioning; Intellectual Disability; neuro-developmental and behavioural assessments including ADHD, ASD, Dyslexia and DCD; attachment; parental alienation; sexual offending; mental health; substance misuse; and parental risk in relation to substance misuse and domestic abuse. She also has experience of applying Positive Behavioural Support and Low Arousal for the management of young people who present with challenging behaviour and applying the Trauma Recovery Model when working with young people who have experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences.
Preeti is contracted to take on the therapeutic lead role within an independent provider that delivers crisis intervention, respite and transition support for young people with high-risk behaviours (including violence and Child Sexual Exploitation) involved with Local Authority children’s social care services.
Prior to joining FPP Ltd, Preeti worked in the drug and alcohol field and acute mental health services (including personality disorder), within the NHS, private health care and the third sector. She completed a Post Graduate course in Counselling Psychology, and was awarded a Higher Master’s Degree in Applied Psychology (Counselling). Preeti then volunteered as a Psychotherapist for a charity delivering services for persons affected by cancer. Preeti is registered as a Psychotherapist with the BACP. She has undertaken additional professional training in working with different neurodivergent condition as well as using the Trauma Recovery Model. In her private practice, Preeti offers psychological therapy for both adults and young people.