20 August News EWI Guidance on Acting for Litigants in Person Litigants in person, 07. Receiving Instructions, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, Litigant in Person We have just published our Guidance for experts on acting for litigants in person. While our general advice to members is not to act for unrepresented parties, there are circumstances in which experts may choose to act for a litigant in person or find that their previously represented party has become a litigant in person.
20 July News Working with Expert Witnesses: Single Joint Experts 07. Receiving Instructions, 09. Being instructed as a Single Joint Expert, 06. Rules and Regulations, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements In the fifth article in the Working with expert witnesses series, Richard Lodge a Partner at Stewarts, discusses his experience of working with Single Joint Experts.
16 July News Expert Witnesses at a Turning Point 16. Criticism and Complaints, 17. Maintaining your professional edge, Artificial Intelligence, AI, 06. Rules and Regulations, 14. Changing your opinion, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, 15. Giving Oral Evidence This year’s Annual Conference discussed AI, independence, credibility, transparency and the changing expectations on expert witnesses.
9 July News Guidance on the Remuneration of Expert Witnesses in Crime Cases 03. Setting Fees and Getting Paid The Legal Aid Agency ('LAA') has issued Guidance on the Remuneration of Expert Witnesses in Crime Cases.
7 July News Restrictions on unregulated Experts in Family Law Children Proceedings Family Law, Unregulated Experts, Family Procedure Rule Committee, Family Procedure Rules, 06. Rules and Regulations The Family Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 amend the Family Procedure Rules 2010 to restrict unregulated experts from acting as expert witnesses in Family Law Children Proceedings. The amendments come into force on 20 July 2026.
22 June News Advocate Economists and the Competition Appeal Tribunal 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements, Competition Appeals Tribunal At a recent Frontier Economics Litigation event, the President of the Competition Appeal Tribunal, The Honourable Mrs Justice Bacon, warned that advocate economists, or economists who ignore obvious analytical points adverse to their client, were not helpful to the Tribunal and self-defeating for the expert.
19 June News EWI Annual Conference 2026: Opening keynote tackles the use of AI in Expert Reports Artificial Intelligence, AI, 11. Report Writing “If an Expert, a lawyer, an accountant, an engineer, a doctor produce inaccurate or unreliable opinions or use hallucinatory references, they are likely to be liable in negligence, whether they’ve used AI or not.” Sir Geoffrey Vos KG, Master of the Rolls
17 June News New Guide to Becoming an Expert Witness 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, Expert Witness Training, 06. Rules and Regulations The EWI has just published its new guide to Becoming and Expert Witness. Written by EWI Member Paul Beckett, the guide is aimed at those who are considering undertaking, or who have just begun undertaking, Expert Witness work.
4 June News Help us map those working in the UK as Expert Witnesses Have your say in this important research and be in with a chance of winning £200 in vouchers of your choice.
22 May News Unregulated Experts in Family Court Children Proceedings Unregulated Experts, Family Procedure Rule Committee, Family Procedure Rules, Children Proceedings, Financial Remedy Proceedings, 06. Rules and Regulations From March to June 2025, the Family Procedure Rule Committee held a consultation on new Family Procedure Rule 25.5A concerning the instruction of unregulated experts. The Committee has now indicated that changes to the FPR on unregulated experts in children proceedings will be included in the next statutory instrument, expected in July, alongside the corresponding practice direction changes.