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Podcast Episode 21: Responding to Written Questions

In January's episode of the Expert Matters Podcast, we discuss responding to written questions. We look at the rules and regulations, discuss a...

LMN v Swansea Bay University Health Board [2025] EWHC 3402 (KB)

The claimant, who suffered brain damage at birth, relied on a report commenting on the allegation of negligence prepared by Mrs S, a midwife. The...

The first-time expert

The details of this case are for gastroenterologists and psychiatrists. The learning points are of general application and although made by an expert...

Amr Danyall Marshal & Ors v Awais Javed & Ors [2025] EWHC 3195 (Ch)

The judge found that the report by the claimants’ forensic accounting expert was not expert evidence because it simply reported what the...

Review of 2025

EWI Chief Executive Officer, Simon Berney-Edwards, shares his thoughts on 2025, a year where Expert Witnesses have continued to come under increasing...

The Isolation of Experts

In this article, Dr Kay Linnell OBE talks about the role of the expert witness, and the problems that can be encountered when Instructing Parties go...

Competition Appeal Tribunal Practice Direction on Expert Evidence

The Competition Appeal Tribunal has published a Practice Direction on expert evidence. The Practice Direction sets out the principles applicable to...

Podcast Episode 20: Review of 2025

Join us for the last podcast of 2025! With some festive cheer, we review 2025, with the ten key issues for expert witnesses that we've seen over...

A Day in the Life of an Orthopaedic Spinal Expert Witness

Mr Niall Craig is a Consultant Orthopaedic Spinal Surgeon and Expert Witness specialising in complex spinal cases. He tells us about his professional...

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Fixed Recoverable Costs Interim Implementation Stocktake

6 November

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Fixed Recoverable Costs Interim Implementation Stocktake

CPR, Civil Procedure Rules, Civil Procedure Rule Committee, Fixed Recoverable Costs Regime, 11. Report Writing, FRC Stocktake

The Civil Procedure Rule Committee is undertaking a consultation regarding the effectiveness of the extension of Fixed Recoverable Costs (FRC), inviting feedback as part of an evidence-gathering initiative conducted in collaboration with the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). You can input into the EWI response by completing a survey of the consultation questions.

Draft report retains litigation privilege (at least for now)

4 November

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Draft report retains litigation privilege (at least for now)

Litigation privilege, 07. Receiving Instructions, performance validity testing, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing, 14. Changing your opinion, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, Draft Report, Test of Memory and Malingering

It is not easy to appreciate the significance of this judgment for experts in general without reading the summary so the ‘Commentary’ is at the end. The neuropsychological test results are perhaps not of particular interest to psychologists and psychiatrists at this stage in the proceedings but may become so if the case does not settle and it goes to trial.

Perrin v Walsh (Rev1) [2025] EWHC 2536 (KB)

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