Mr. Stephen Kite

Mr Stephen Kite is an expert in podiatric medical matters since 2007, he qualified in 1986 and began practising podiatric medicine in 1987. He is founder of award winning The Stephen Kite Practice, based in Dorset. He has over 25 years of private practice experience and expertise.

His expertise includes matters involving Forensic Gait Analysis, Podiatry Expert Witness, Personal injury (including fully functional orthotics), Medical negligence and Malpractice.

Expert cases- Negligence, NHS Whistleblowing, Malpractice, Personal injury, Health Professions Council hearings and CCTV gait analysis in criminal cases (which involved identifying suspects from CCTV footage for the defence and the prosecution in criminal cases using gait analysis and is one of only a small group of Forensic Podiatrists worldwide who have used this method of identification or elimination of suspects.)

He has provided and reviewed evidence for the defence involving The Health & Care Professions Council, (the regulatory body for Podiatrists in the UK), and he has acted as the Expert to National Health Service Health Boards and been asked to assist in cases of NHS whistleblowing allegations. His expert evidence has been instrumental in some very complex medico-legal  and criminal cases most notably was involved pre trial  in the last of the Hatton Garden suspects to be tried in 2019  and was instrumental in the acquittal of a suspect wrongly accused of serious crimes .  He has been invited to talk about and demonstrate Forensic Podiatry methods on BBC1 TV.

Mr Kite holds certification from Bond Solon in part 35 and the Practice Direction part 35 for the protocol for the instruction of Experts to give evidence in Civil Claims and the Practice Direction on pre-action conduct.

Awards and Nominations:

2024. Corporate INTL Global Awards – Podiatry and Podiatric Medicine Expert Witness of the Year in the United Kingdom

2023 - Podiatry and Podiatric Medicine Expert Witness of the Year in the United Kingdom – Corporate INTL Global Award

2022 - Podiatry and Podiatric Medicine Expert Witness of the year in the United Kingdom – Corporate International Global Awards

2022 - Podiatry and Podiatric Medicine Expert Witness of the year in the United Kingdom – Global Law Expert Annual Awards

2021 – Podiatry and Podiatric Medicine Expert Witness  of the year United Kingdom  - Corporate International Global Awards

2020 - Podiatry and Podiatric Medicine Expert Witness  of the year United Kingdom  - Corporate International Global Awards

2020 – Most Outstanding Podiatrist in the UK – Pharmaceutical & Health Care Awards

2019 – Lawyer Monthly Expert Witness Awards – Winner of recognition of specialized knowledge and experience within the area of : Gait Analysis, Forensic – UK

2018 – Private Podiatry Practice of the Year- UK Enterprise Awards SMA News

2017- The Healthcare Leadership Award nominee – Lead Tribune Media Group – Venue Magazine Cincinnati

2017 – Best Podiatry Practice Dorset - Pharmaceutical& Health Care Awards

2016 - Best Private Podiatry Practice South West of England Winner Pharmaceutical & Health Care Awards.

Introduction into Forensic Podiatry Regents College, Regents Park, London. June (2007) – Gait Analysis CCTV, Shoe / footprint evidence collection medico-legal Certification, Bond Solon expert witness civil procedures rules (2015), Bond Solon Update for Expert Witnesses ( 2020)

The Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists number 30134, Health Professions Council number CH18754, Member of APIL registers of expert witnesses (The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers Expert Witness). Member of the Society of Expert Witnesses. On the expert list of The Society of Chiropodists & Podiatrists. Member of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses Number U31900. Member of the Federation of Forensic and Expert Witness, Member of the International Association for Identification number 34586, Member of the Expert Witness Institute number 10001867