In this expert-led webinar, Consultant Neuropsychologist Dr Simon Redpath explores hidden deficits, functional impact, and the medico-legal risks that can arise when neuropsychological evidence is misunderstood.

About the Speaker

Dr Simon Redpath is a Consultant Neuropsychologist with more than 20 years’ experience working with people affected by acquired and traumatic brain injury. He works within the neuroscience centre in Dundee and has extensive clinical and medico-legal experience, including traumatic brain injury, hypoxic brain injury, stroke, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and cognitive rehabilitation.

Dr Redpath first became involved in medico-legal work through the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority in 2011. His PhD research focused on predicting outcomes following head injury, including paediatric traumatic brain injury, and his clinical expertise brings valuable clarity to complex brain injury claims.

Webinar Key Themes

In this session, Dr Redpath explains why brain injury claims rarely fit a simple pattern. Even apparently minor injuries can have significant consequences, while severe injuries may produce better-than-expected outcomes depending on the person’s environment, recovery support, and wider psychosocial context.

Key medico-legal insights include:

• Brain injury outcomes should be considered through affect, behaviour, cognition, and biological factors.
• Fatigue, emotional change, social withdrawal, and cognitive symptoms can interact and amplify functional impact.
• A normal MRI or CT scan does not always rule out meaningful neuropsychological injury.
• Pre-injury personality, cognitive reserve, family environment, healthcare support, and community rehabilitation can all affect outcome.
• Solicitors should ask specific questions in instructions where there are concerns about causation, attribution, functional capacity, or hidden symptoms.

“No head injury is too trivial to ignore, or too serious to despair of.”

“If it’s on your mind, put it in the instructions.”

Why This Matters

Brain injury evidence can be highly nuanced. Symptoms such as memory difficulties, sensory overload, reduced concentration, fatigue, personality change, or emotional dysregulation may be wrongly attributed to the injury itself, to psychological trauma, to pre-existing issues, or to unrelated medical factors.

Dr Redpath’s webinar highlights the importance of careful neuropsychological assessment in identifying what is incident-related, what may have existed before the accident, and what may have developed afterwards.

For solicitors working on serious injury, clinical negligence, or complex neurological claims, this session provides practical insight into how expert neuropsychological evidence can support breach, causation, prognosis, capacity, and quantum.

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