News

This interview with Chris Turner, Aviation Expert, was first featured in the March 2022 edition of Lawyer Monthly Magazine.

In our write up, we capture the highlights from his talk at our networking evening on the 23^rd March.

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.

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 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.