Medicolegal Terms and Fees

TERMS

• All medicolegal Consultations are undertaken via secure audio-visual telemedicine link.
• Reports are provided within 6 weeks of Consultation, upon receipt of fee payment (including legal-aid funded cases). 
• Reports generated from documentation review without Consultation may take up to 6 weeks from the date of accepting Instructions.
• For reasons of Governance and Data Protection, only electronic forms of clinical and medicolegal documentation are accepted. Please see additional charges

FEES

• Medicolegal Consultation: £350
• Consultation non-attendance without 72h notification carries a £120 fee.
• Medicolegal Report (documentation examination, research, report preparation); £350/h (typically 3-5h).
• n.b. Documentation Examination/Review for documents exceeding 500 pages is charged at £350/h or £1 per page; whichever is the lesser cost
• Court Attendance: £700 per half day (morning or afternoon), with cancellation fee of £300 per half day if cancelled less than four weeks beforehand
• Court Standby: £350 per half day, cancellation fee of £200 per half day if cancelled less than four weeks beforehand
• Cheque payments and payments requiring telephone verification carry a 7.5% Admin surcharge
• Late Payments: invoiced payments outstanding at 6 weeks will be reissued with a 7.5% interest rate applied. Invoices remaining unpaid 30 days thereafter will be passed on to Medserv Medical Account Services. These additional rates also apply to legal-aid funded cases. 
• Non-electronic documentation can only be received by prior arrangement and agreement. This will incur a processing uplift charge of 7.5%.
• Non-electronic documentation received without agreement will not be processed and will incur a £50 disposal charge.

TERMS

• All medicolegal Consultations are undertaken via secure audio-visual telemedicine link.
• Reports are provided within 6 weeks of Consultation, upon receipt of fee payment (including legal-aid funded cases). 
• Reports generated from documentation review without Consultation are typically complete by 6 weeks from the date of accepting Instructions
• For reasons of Clinical Governance and Data Protection, only electronic forms of clinical and medicolegal documentation are accepted. 

FEES

• Medicolegal Consultation: €350 
• Consultation non-attendance without 72h notification carries a €150 fee
• Medicolegal Report (documentation examination, research, report preparation); €350/h (typically 3-5h).
• n.b. Documentation Examination/Review for documents exceeding 500 pages is charged at €350/h or €1 per page; whichever is the lesser cost
• Court Attendance: €700 per half day (morning or afternoon), with cancellation fee of €300 per half day if cancelled less than four weeks beforehand
• Court Standby: €350 per half day, cancellation fee of €200 per half day if cancelled less than four weeks beforehand
• Cheque payments and payments requiring telephone verification carry a 7.5% Admin surcharge
• Late Payments: invoiced payments outstanding at 6 weeks will be reissued with a 7.5% interest rate applied. Invoices remaining unpaid 30 days thereafter will be passed on to Medserv Medical Account Services
• Non-electronic documentation can only be received by prior agreement. This will incur a processing uplift charge of 7.5%.
• Non-electronic documentation received without prior agreement will not be processed and will incur a €60 disposal charge