The 11th Edition of the guide includes some changes to guidance for Expert Evidence

Claimants’ expert conferred with and sought opinions from the Claimants’ solicitors on issues relevant to ongoing joint expert discussions and the joint statement.

The Criminal Cases Review Commission are looking for a number of people to join us as Case Review Managers on a permanent basis.

The government has announced a consultation into a new scheme to enable claimants and defendants to achieve faster resolution of ‘lower value’ clinical negligence claims (claims valued up to and including £25,000) at a lower, more proportionate cost than under the current system.

Charlotte Wells & Co is the latest organisation to join EWI’s Corporate Partnership scheme.

A high-court judge reminds experts of their duties to the court.

The Forensic Science Regulator has made a draft of the core part of the single statutory code available for informal comment.

The core competencies framework for Expert Witnesses sets out the attributes, knowledge, and skills that experts must develop if they wish to act as an Expert Witness.

The December 2021 issue of his Newsletter (Issue 37) has now been published.

Expert evidence can be crucial to the success, or failure, of a construction dispute; for example, a case can turn on a judge’s preference for one expert’s delay analysis over the other. Consequently, as Huw Wilkins explains, it is important that experts, as well as instructing solicitors and clients, understand the rules regulating expert evidence in dispute resolution procedures.