Paediatric Orthopaedic Expert Witness
Farokh Wadia
MBBS, MS Orthopaedics, MRCSEd,
FRCS Trauma & Orthopaedics
Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Southampton
Independent expert opinion on children's orthopaedic injury, treatment and outcome.
Claimant, defendant and single joint expert instructions.
Expert work is part of my practice Not the whole of it
Scope
General Paediatric orthopaedics.
Knee,
Upper limb disorders,
Limb reconstruction and deformity,
Paediatric trauma,
Hip disorders including DDH, Perthes and SCFE,
Cerebral palsy and neuromuscular disorders,
Delayed and missed diagnosis.
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Method
Reports are prepared under Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules and Practice Direction 35. My duty is to help the court, and it overrides my obligation to whoever instructs or pays me.
Where a report relies on published evidence or a guideline, I check the source rather than quote it from memory.
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Practicalities
Standard reports in two weeks from the appointment where records are complete;
Complex reports in four weeks.
Clinical Examinations at Spire Southampton, or within a hundred miles of it, London included.
Fees available upon request.
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Credentials
FRCS Trauma & Orthopaedics 2012
CCT - 2013
GMC Registration: 6039768
Paediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship - Royal Manchester Children's Hospital
Paediatric Hand Fellowship -Great Ormond Street Hospital
Medicolegal report writing Course -BMA Bond Solon Nov 2025
Courtroom Skills course -BMA Bond Solon Oct 2025
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