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Your Witness
... the expert’s forum for discussion and information
dissemination
Published quarterly and distributed free to all
registered expert witnesses, Your Witness acts as a forum
for the discussion and dissemination of information relevant to
practising expert witnesses.
Coverage ranges from highly topical issues (such as legal reform
and court reports) to more ‘background’ business matters
(including getting paid, fees, disbursements
and much more).
The following table shows the contents of the last four issues.
To gauge the quality of Your Witness firsthand, you can
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| Issue 51,
March 2008 |
In this issue we take a look at some further guidance on how long experts should retain documents, what an expert can do when a lawyer goes bust, the Low Copy Number DNA profiling technique, and the trouble it finds itself in, and three court reports dealing with expert fees in the Lands Tribunals, the disregarding of inadequately prepared expert evidence and the proper place expert evidence holds in the evidential base of a case. |
| Issue 50,
December 2007 |
In this issue we take a look at some unhelpful changes to the rules that govern the conduct of solicitors and at a further layer of regulation of expert witnesses being introduced by the Government. We consider how long experts should retain documents generated by an instruction and the role the expert witness has to play in the court's fact finding process. We ask whether fresh expert evidence can be grounds for reopening an appeal, and look at the consequences that can flow from a statutory body's failure, as opposed to a litigant's failure, to disclose expert evidence. |
| Issue 49,
September 2007 |
In this issue we take a look at preliminary results of the latest in our series of expert witness surveys, the extent to which experts can control the scope of evidence in a case and what a judge must do if he wants to reject an expert's findings. We also look at a case that gives further judicial support for the right of an expert with a connection to a party being able to act as an expert witness. The cross-examination of SJEs and the role of experts in compromise agreements are also covered. Finally, we report on another medical reporting organisation (MRO) that has gone into liquidation (IMS of Richmond in Surrey) leaving thousands of doctors owed a total in excess of £4,000,000 - and offer guidance on how to bypass the MRO and seek redress direct from the instructing lawyer. |
| Issue 48,
June 2007 |
In this issue we take a look at when exactly an expert's duty to the court begins, developments in the fitness to practise regime covering doctors, how to minimise problems that can arise when an instructing solicitor moves to another firm, the quality you should expect of the documents you receive as part of an instruction, how the judge should handle an expert's report that is clearly in error, and what can happen when an expert changes his opinion |
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