7 December Industry News The short answer is No Should you challenge an expert's view without calling them to court? Expert evidence, Expert Report
7 December Industry News Appeal arguing that a single joint expert should have been male rejected equal representation A case of interest (particularly in the light of the Equal Representation for Expert Witnesses (ERE) initiative)
7 December Industry News Attack on expert's credibility rejected Expert evidence, Credibility, Cross-examination, reliability We have often drawn attention to cases in which claims regarding experts’ unreliability were supported, so we feel it is important to highlight counter-examples
5 December Industry News Modes of address in courts and tribunals Lord Chief Justice and Senior President of Tribunals have announced an immediate change in practice.
2 December EWI News EWI welcome Westbury Collections Ltd as Supplier Partner supplier partner The Expert Witness Institute is pleased to announce that Westbury Collections Ltd is joining them as their latest Supplier Partner.
14 November Case Updates Admissibility or weight: what is the test for expert evidence? Admissibility, Impartiality, Expert's behaviour, Bias, Independence, Duties of the Expert, Duty of Expert, Duty to the court, Legal role of an expert witness, Expert bias In an exceptional case, as here, where the expert singularly and spectacularly fails in their duties to the court, expert evidence may be deemed inadmissible and never get to the stage of being tested for weight.
13 November Industry News Ensure your expert has the necessary expertise for the case Recent judgment highlights the problem when you do not instruct an expert with sufficient expertise
25 October Giving Oral Evidence R v Fitzsimmons v [2022] NICC 27 General, Bias, Voice attribution experts, Visual identification experts, Acoustic analysis, Auditory analysis “Can your paper trail be followed?”
25 October Report Writing Wegner v Murphy [2022] IEHC 525 Medical experts, Redacted reports “What if I am provided with incomplete or redacted medical records?”
25 October Case Updates Davison v HM Senior Coroner for Hertfordshire [2022] EWHC 2343 (Admin) Psychiatry, diabulimia “Could you give evidence on diabulimia?” The case: an application to quash the coroner’s verdict on the basis of new evidence about diabulimia.