The Expert Witness
Institute (EWI) was launched in November 1996 to service and support
experts. It acts as a voice for the expert witness community, supporting
experts from all professional disciplines and lawyers who use the
services of experts. Its functions are to encourage, train and educate
experts and to improve and maintain their standards and status.
The EWI actively works with a wide range of professional bodies
to achieve this. The EWI is independent of outside commercial interests
and is democratic, transparent and fully accountable to its members.
It is a non-profit making company limited by guarantee The objective
of the EWI is the support of the proper administration of justice
and the early resolution of disputes through fair and unbiased expert
evidence. To achieve this objective, the EWI:
- Acts as a voice for expert witnesses, especially in communicating
with the media.
- Provides support to experts of all professional disciplines
and other occupations requiring skills and judgment.
- Encourages lawyers to make use of experts wherever specialized
knowledge is required.
- Engages in the training of experts to maintain and enhance
standards and their status.
- Works actively with other allied professional bodies and associations.
- Makes representations to Government and to professional bodies
and associations wherever appropriate.
EWI would like to thank the following Founding Sponsors for their
continued support:
- Allianz Cornhill
- Bond Solon Training
- Geoffrey Hunt & Partners
- KPMG
- Medical Defence Union
- Medical Protection Society
- Moores Rowland
- RB Hawkins & Associates
- Royal Society of Medicine
- Strange Strange & Gardner
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