Medico-Legal Experience

Dr Terence McLoughlin is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine with extensive medico-legal experience, particularly in cases involving acute trauma, concussion, and clinical negligence. He provides reports across condition and prognosis, causation, breach of duty, and personal injury, and has been instructed in both civil and criminal matters, including drink-driving and clinical negligence claims.

Dr McLoughlin provides independent medico-legal reports for civil, criminal, and coronial proceedings. Reports are personally prepared, CPR Part 35-compliant where applicable, and grounded in current frontline consultant practice.

Bond Solon trained, Dr McLoughlin has appeared in court as an expert witness and is currently instructed in the UK’s largest class action for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE), preparing reports for hundreds of former professional athletes. He is regularly instructed in claims involving traumatic brain injury, concussion, and the long-term effects of head trauma.

Clinical Experience

Dr McLoughlin is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and Deputy Clinical Director of Research for the University Hospitals Liverpool Group. He is Co-Director of LEDRUS, a multidisciplinary research unit, and Principal Investigator on several national and international trials in concussion, traumatic brain injury, and dementia.

He has held leadership roles in medical education, wellbeing, and research, and has extensive experience in emergency care delivery, service development, and clinical governance. Dr McLoughlin’s clinical expertise spans acute trauma, head injury, musculoskeletal injury, and psychological sequelae of emergency presentations.

Alongside NHS work, he has private appointments at The Sefton Suite and Re:Cognition Health, and is Honorary Clinical Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University.

Dr McLoughlin brings specialist expertise in concussion, traumatic brain injury, acute neurological injury, musculoskeletal trauma, resuscitation, and the neuropsychiatric sequelae of injury, integrating clinical, academic, and research perspectives to inform patient care, service development, and expert opinion. He maintains a strong national profile in emergency medicine, research, and service innovation, with sustained commitment to patient safety, quality improvement, and emergency care research.

Special Interests

Dr McLoughlin has particular expertise in traumatic brain injury, concussion, chronic post-traumatic symptoms, and acute musculoskeletal trauma. He also has a strong interest in medicolegal aspects of emergency medicine decision-making, including breach of duty, delayed diagnosis, and capacity in high-pressure environments.

He has supported elite athletes and organisations, and served as an expert adviser on concussion to HM Government through the Love of the Game charity.

Civil Litigation & Clinical Negligence

• Emergency medicine breach of duty
• Delayed or missed diagnosis
• Failure to investigate, monitor, escalate, or refer
• Premature discharge and inadequate safety-netting
• Sepsis and acute deterioration
• Medication and prescribing errors
• Emergency resuscitation and escalation
• Personal injury and catastrophic injury
• Condition and prognosis reporting
• Medical causation and material contribution analysis

Neurological Injury and Trauma 

• Traumatic brain injury and concussion
• Post-concussion syndrome
• Acute neurological deterioration
• Neuropsychiatric sequelae of injury
• Complex injury and trauma
• Capacity and functional impact following injury

Criminal Proceedings & Custodial Medicine

• Assault and criminal injury
• Head injury and neurological deterioration

Memberships of Professional Bodies

• President, Emergency & Disaster Medicine Council, Royal Society of Medicine
• Honorary Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine
• Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine
• Affiliate Member, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine, Royal College of Physicians

Further information

Download Dr McLoughlin’s CV to learn more about his qualifications and experience.