Dr. Myles Connor

I am a Consultant Neurologist with more than 25 years of consultant-level neurological practice and over 19 years as a Consultant Neurologist in the United Kingdom.
I provide independent expert opinion in civil and criminal matters throughout Scotland and the United Kingdom. My instructions include personal injury litigation, clinical negligence, road traffic collisions, workplace injury, neurological disability, causation and prognosis, including clinical commentary on neurological factors relevant to life expectancy.
I have prepared in excess of 200 independent medicolegal reports and currently undertake approximately 60–80 medicolegal instructions annually.
My overriding duty is to the Court. I provide independent opinion evidence irrespective of the source of instruction.

Areas of Expertise:
General Neurology

• General adult neurology
• Complex neurological diagnosis
• Neurological disability and prognosis

Functional Neurological Disorder

• Functional limb weakness
• Functional movement disorders
• Dissociative (non-epileptic) attacks
• Functional cognitive symptoms
• Persistent post-concussion symptoms
• Functional symptoms following injury or trauma

Movement Disorders

• Parkinson's disease
• Atypical parkinsonian syndromes
• Multiple System Atrophy
• Progressive Supranuclear Palsy
• Corticobasal Syndrome
• Tremor disorders
• Dystonia

Infectious Disease related Neurology

• Meningitis
• Encephalitis
• Lyme Disease
• Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
• Cryptococcus infection
• Herpes Simplex and other viral infections
• Tuberculosis

Epilepsy

• Epilepsy and seizure disorders
• Transient loss of consciousness
• Driving and epilepsy
• Prognosis and future risk assessment

Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease – causation, consequences and prognosis

• Stroke causation
• Ischaemic stroke
• Intracerebral haemorrhage
• Transient ischaemic attack
• Cerebrovascular disease
• Long-term neurological consequences of stroke
• Neurological disability and prognosis following stroke

(Please note hyperacute stroke treatment, including thrombolysis and thrombectomy, is excluded)

Cognitive and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

• Cognitive impairment
• Memory disorders
• Neurological causes of cognitive dysfunction

Neuromuscular Disorders

• Peripheral neuropathy
• Myopathy
• Motor neuron disease
• Neuromuscular junction disorders

Traumatic brain injury

• Traumatic brain injury

• Head injury

• Mild traumatic brain injury / concussion

• Moderate and severe traumatic brain injury

• Post-traumatic neurological symptoms

• Neurological disability following brain injury

• Causation and prognosis following traumatic brain injury

Medicolegal Practice
Instructions accepted from:
• Pursuer / Claimant solicitors
• Defender / Defendant solicitors
• Insurers
• Procurators Fiscal
• Criminal defence solicitors
• Local authorities

Current instruction profile:
• Pursuer / Claimant: 90%
• Defender / Defendant: 10%

This distribution reflects the sources of instruction rather than any preference regarding the instructing party. Independent opinion evidence is provided irrespective of the source of instruction.

Court Experience
• Expert witness evidence in Sheriff Court proceedings
• Medical witness evidence in High Court proceedings
• Attendance at conferences with Counsel
• Civil personal injury litigation
• Clinical negligence litigation
• Criminal proceedings involving neurological issues

Indemnity
Professional indemnity maintained through the Medical Defence Union, including cover for
medicolegal expert witness practice.
Available upon request.

Inspire MediLaw Expert Witness Training Course (2018); Ampersand Medicolegal Conference, invited speaker (Functional Neurological Disorder); Regular attendance at medicolegal conferences and continuing professional development events

Fellow, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh; Association of British Neurologists; British Medical Association; Movement Disorder Society; Functional Neurological Disorder Society (Founding Member); British Association of Stroke Physicians