Jason Payne-James
Society Position: Small Business Division committee
Qualifications/Post Nominals: LLM MSc FFFLM FRCS FRCP FCSFS FFCFM(RCPA) Mediator
Current Employment: Independent Specialist in Forensic and Legal Medicine
Professional Background
Jason Payne-James is an independent Specialist in Forensic and Legal Medicine with a range of research and clinical interests. From a clinical perspective he has been a forensic physician (Forensic Medical Examiner) with the Metropolitan Police Service in London, UK for over 25 years. Previously he worked in hospital medicine, predominantly in surgical, trauma and gastroenterological specialties. His interests include clinical and ethical aspects of healthcare in custody, injury and wound documentation and interpretation, complaints against healthcare professionals, forensic evidence collection, restraint and less-lethal systems, harm and death in custody and torture. He has published peer-reviewed research on a wide range of subjects including healthcare in custody, torture, death in custody, use-of-force, TASER®, photo-documentation and irritant spray.
He acts as an expert witness in these areas. He has reviewed many deaths and other serious incident in custody and in other settings on behalf of families, coroners, the IPCC, PPO, legal teams and others in the UK and reviews a wide variety of other cases in the UK and internationally.
Jason was President of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians (2015-2017); he is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Cameron Forensic Medical Sciences, Barts & the London School of Medicine & Dentistry, UK; external Consultant to the UK National Crime Agency and National Injuries Database; Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine; Member of the Executive Committee of the European Council of Legal Medicine; Visiting Professor at the University of Belgrade, Serbia. He is an independent member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on the Medical Implications of Less-Lethal Weapons. He was President of the World Police Medical Officers from 2011-2014.
Jason has co-authored & co-edited a large number of publications including the 1st and 2nd editions of the Encyclopedia of Forensic & Legal Medicine; Forensic Medicine: Clinical & Pathological Aspects; Symptoms and Signs of Substance Misuse (1st, 2nd & 3rd editions); he is lead author of the 13th Edition of Simpson’s Forensic Medicine (the 14th edition is in production); he co-authored the Oxford Handbook of Forensic Medicine and co-edited Age Estimation in the Living and Current Practice in Forensic Medicine (the 2nd volume has just been published); and Monitoring Detention, Custody, Torture and Ill-treatment.
He designed the ForensiGraph® and the ForensiDoc® App. He is director of FHC Experts for Law & Mediation (and ISO 9001 company) and Payne-James Ltd, both of which are small businesses established for more than 16 years which provide a range of forensic expertise and consultancy to a range of public body, police and private clients.
CSFS Background
He joined the Society in 2001 and has been a Fellow since 2006.
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