Curriculum vitae, Dr Malcolm Bourne
Personal Information:
Name: Dr Malcolm Bourne
Age: 46
Professional Address: Blackburn-w-Darwen CAMHS, The Mount, Whalley Road,
Accrington, Lancs BB5 6AS
Business/mobile tel: 07956 921281
NHS tel; 01254 226281
Fax: 01204 880607
e-mail: Malcolm.Bourne@virgin.net
Qualifications:
B.A. (Hons), Oxford, 1983
M.B., B.S., London, 1987
M.R.C.Psych, Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1991
M.Sc., University of Manchester, 1994
Education:
Manchester Grammar School, Manchester, 1972-1979
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1980-1983
Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine, London, 1983-1987
Manchester University (M.Sc.), 1991-1994
Languages
Working Knowledge of Hebrew, French
Professional Experience:
(1) National Health Service:
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Preston, 1996-2006;
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Blackburn, 2006-present
Senior Registrar, Manchester Training Scheme in Child Psychiatry, 1992-1996
Senior House Office/Registrar, North Manchester Training Scheme Psychiatry, 19881992
Senior House Officer, Accident & Emergency Department, Whittington Hospital,
London, 1988, and part time, Manchester, 1988-1992
(2) Medicolegal/Consultancy
Expert Witness/Expert Reports for Court, solo, 1998-2000
Expert Witness/Expert Reports for Court, CATT Partnership, 2000-present
Total of around 150 Medicolegal Reports, 50 court appearances as Expert Witness
Consultant to Ridgway Park School (for children with Emotional and Behavioural
Difficulties), CATT Partnership, 2002-present
Private work as Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, CATT Partnership, 2001present
Specific Medicolegal Training:
Bond Solon Course, Excellence in Report Writing
Bond Solon Course, The Courtroom Skills Training
Family Law/Jordan Publishing, Medical Evidence in Child Abuse Cases
Christina Lyon, The Human Rights Act
Further Family Law conferences on Medical Evidence; Child Abuse; The Children Act; Child
Care Legislation.
Areas of Special Expertise
(1) Clinical
Autism and Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Factitious illness (also known as “Munchhausen Syndrome by Proxy”)
Emotional and Psychiatric Disorders in Adolescence
(2) Medicolegal/Consultancy
Psychiatric Reports for Court on Children and Adolescents, Civil and Criminal Cases
Children Act; Human Rights Act
Complex Child Care/Child Placement Issues – Systemic overviewing of complex, multiprofessional and multi-agency issues and dynamics, issues around abuse, judging veracity
of children’s statements.
Systemic and Organisational Consultancy
The CATT Partnership
Since 2000, I have undertaken Medicolegal Work, Private Clinical cases and other
Consultancy alongside two experienced colleagues, under the name of “The CATT
Partnership”. We work as a small team, with many advantages from taking a
multidisciplinary perspective. We consult to the Ridgway Park group of Schools for
children with Emotional and Behavioural Problems, in Lancashire and Merseyside,
Details available in accompanying factsheet.
Publications
Academic Publications on Epilepsy; Anti-Depressants; Self Harm; CAMHS Professional
Systems.
Plus a number of fictional stories.
References
Clinical and Medicolegal Referees available.
The
C.A.T.T. Partnership
Dr Malcolm Bourne, B.A., M.B., B.S., M.Sc., M.R.C.Psych Consultant Child Psychiatrist
Dr Ray Roth, Ph.D., M.Sc., S.R.O.T., Clinical Specialist Practitioner
Maria Farrar, R.N. (LD), B.Sc. (Hons), Dip. C. C. Ed., F.Th (Int) Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
Dr Malcolm Bourne
51 Newton Drive
Greenmount
Bury, Lancashire BL8 4DH
07956 921281
e-mail Malcolm.Bourne@virgin.net
The CATT Partnership is a small team of experienced Child Mental Health Professionals
working together for the benefit of children, undertaking: Psychiatric Reports for Court specializing in complex Child Care and Child Placement
Issues, and assessments for Criminal Cases including Pre-Sentencing Reports; and including
Compensation work
Independent Reviews, Coroners’ Court
Clinical Child Psychiatric Assessments and Therapeutic Work
Consultation to other Professionals and Agencies – we are Consultants to the Ridgway
Park group of Schools in Lancashire and Merseyside.
MEDICOLEGAL WORK
The medicolegal work covers Criminal and Civil Cases. We are instructed in criminal cases
regarding Psychiatric Assessments, and to provide an opinion on specific issues before the Court.
Our work in civil cases includes both Public and Private Law, generally in cases under the
umbrella of legislation enshrined in the Children Act 1989, and the European Convention on
Human Rights, taking joint instructions as appropriate.
We write independent, expert Psychiatric Reports in the best interests of the Child(ren), using
our extensive clinical experience and systemic training to overview complex issues around child
placement, legal and other child mental health issues. Cases usually involve consideration of a
range of issues for the children and family members, alongside the involvement, roles and
opinions of other agencies, notably Health, Education, Social Services and Guardians-forChildren. Reports are based on appropriate clinical interviews and other information, such as
Bundles of Documents, and previous Health or other Expert Reports, made available to us.
Following the recommendations of the Wolff Report, we aim in Civil cases to accept Joint
Instructions, and in any case take an independent overview.
Dr Malcolm Bourne, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist has sixteen years
experience working in child psychiatry, including eleven years as a full time consultant, currently
based in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Blackburn-with-Darwen. He has
been working in the medicolegal arena for eight years, with expertise in the Children Act and
areas of Family Law, including Child Care and Placement and the general provision of Psychiatric
Reports for the Court.
Maria Farrar, Specialist Mental Health Practitioner, has over twenty years’ experience in
child mental health and with children with learning difficulties, currently working in CAMHS in
Preston. She has additional qualifications in Child Care Education, and Family Therapy. She has
been working in tandem with Dr Bourne over the past five years.
Dr Raymond Roth, Clinical Specialist Practitioner, also has over twenty years’ experience in
child and adolescent mental health, with additional qualifications in Clinical Psychology, Family
Therapy and Group Therapy. He has been working with Dr Bourne over the past twelve years.
Our multidisciplinary ethos allows us to take a flexible approach tailored to the best interests of
the children and families involved, in a fashion unique to the medicolegal field, including the
ability to respond, for instance, to children who need to speak to a therapist of a particular
gender. We also have special experience and expertise in overviewing the interactions between
professional agencies, and between those agencies and families.
Our fees are quoted in the accompanying Terms and Conditions and an estimate is given as part
of the initial agreement. We have a rapid turnaround of cases, usually seeing families within a
month of agreement of Terms and Conditions, and providing completed Reports within three
weeks of Interviews.
Alongside our professional qualifications listed, we are entered in both the Law Society Directory
of Expert Witnesses, and the UK Expert Witness Directory.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for an initial informal discussion of any cases.
The C.A.T.T.Partnership
Dr Malcolm Bourne, B.A., M.B., B.S., M.Sc., M.R.C.Psych Consultant Child Psychiatrist
Dr Ray Roth, Ph.D., M.Sc., S.R.O.T., Clinical Specialist Practitioner
Maria Farrar, R.N. (LD), B.Sc. (Hons), Dip. C. C. Ed., F.Th (Int) Specialist Mental Health Practitioner
Dr Malcolm Bourne
Blackburn-w-Darwen CAMHS
The Mount, Whalley Road
Accrington, Lancs BB5 6AS
Tel 07956 921281
(NHS work tel 01254 226281)
e-mail Malcolm.Bourne@virgin.net
Medicolegal Fees – Terms and Conditions – Agreement to these forms a private contract
between ourselves and the solicitor(s).
Re:
I will write an independent, Expert report in the best interests of the child.
Qualifying work (including reasonable travel) and writing of the Report will be charged at £185.00 per
hour. Travel and administrative expenses will be charged at cost.
Court attendance as an Expert Witness (including reasonable travel) will be charged at £740.00 per half day
(i.e. up to four hours); £1100.00 per full day (up to six hours); and at £185.00 per hour thereafter, plus
Travel expenses and subsistence at cost. Cancellation of work at less than three working days’ notice will
incur 50% of expected fees.
If appropriate, setting up any subsequent clinical work through the National Health Service, for children
local to our Service, would be based purely on our own clinical judgment, and would not be charged for.
Subsequent private clinical work would again be based purely on our own clinical judgment, and is subject
to negotiation and agreement.
In line with BMA guidelines, our fees will not be subject to later taxation by the Court.
Fees are due within 28 days of the completion of the Report. The due date is specifically not dependent
on when payment is made by the Legal Services Commission or other third parties. In the case of joint
instructions, wither each Representative should agree terms in writing, or the Representative writing
directly to me assumes responsibility for ensuring payment of the fees. In the case of non-payment we
reserve the right to charge interest at the rate of 2% of the amount owed, per month or part thereof after
the due date, plus recovery of costs incurred following up non-payment.
I would be grateful if you would confirm your acceptance of these Terms and Conditions in writing as
soon as possible.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Malcolm Bourne
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist