7 December News Attack on expert's credibility rejected Expert evidence, Credibility, Cross-examination, reliability, 10. Report Writing, 13. Changing your opinion, 14. Giving Oral Evidence 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 News Modes of address in courts and tribunals 14. Giving Oral Evidence Lord Chief Justice and Senior President of Tribunals have announced an immediate change in practice.
14 November News 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, 05. Rules and Regulations, 14. Giving Oral Evidence, 09. Records Assessments and Site Visits 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.
11 November News EWI in conversation with Tom Magner - Communication Skills 14. Giving Oral Evidence, 16. Maintaining your professional edge, Communication Simon Berney-Edwards talks to Tom Magner about his top tips for handling the media and journalists. His approach is applicable to anyone who needs to think about communicating carefully and succinctly. A useful skill for any Expert.
4 October Day in the life A day in the life of an Expert Witness at UK Planning Inquiries 10. Report Writing, 14. Giving Oral Evidence, 16. Maintaining your professional edge Lachlan Robertson, Planning Inspector
4 October News EVANS v R&V ALLGEMEINE VERSICHERUNG AG [2022] EWHC 2436 (QB) Expert evidence, Expert Report, Foreign jurisdiction, 10. Report Writing, 14. Giving Oral Evidence A claimant who had been injuired in a road traffic accident in Germany issued proceedings in England and the matter proceeded to trial. The defendant's expert witness's report had been translated from German and had been certified as correct.
3 October Case Updates Bitar v Bank of Beirut SAL [2022] EWHC 2163 (QB) Judicial critism, 14. Giving Oral Evidence, 15. Criticism and Complaints Relevance: General Topics: Judicial criticism
12 September News Reflecting on a bad experience in Court 13. Changing your opinion, 14. Giving Oral Evidence, 15. Criticism and Complaints Simon Berney-Edwards, EWI Chief Executive, catches up with a member as they reflect on a recent bad experience and share their learning.
18 August News Expert criticised for tending to be an advocate and concerns about their objectivity or reliability also noted Expert evidence, Expert's behaviour, Independence, Objectivity, 05. Rules and Regulations, 14. Giving Oral Evidence An expert on Lebanese Banking Law has been criticised for his tendency to advocate , and evidence the expert had given in another case led to judge being concerned about the expert's reliability due to lack of atttention to detail.
10 August Case Updates Gallagher v Gallagher (No.2) (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC 53 Hot-tubbing, Impartiality, 07. Working with Instructing Parties, 14. Giving Oral Evidence Topics: Experts’ duties Impartiality Concurrent expert evidence (‘hot-tubbing’)