20 December EWI News 2022 in Review: Expert Evidence under scrutiny EWI Chief Executive Officer, Simon Berney-Edwards, shares his thoughts on 2022, a year where Expert Witnesses have faced increasing scrutiny.
18 December Starting your Expert Witness Business 6 Top Tips to Protect Your Business Terms of Engagement, Terms and conditions, contracts Hazel Napier from BEB Contract & Legal Services have come up with the following top tips to make sure your business is protected
13 December Expert Discussions and Joint Statements The importance of independence: preserving the integrity of the Expert Witness discussion Experts duty, Independence, Duty of Expert, Expert's meeting, Expert's duty, Experts meeting, Duty to the court, Instruction from solicitor We take a look at how the distinction between being an independent Expert Witness is crucial in a court case.
8 December EWI News Collaboration agreed between the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Ciarb) and the EWI arbitration Ciarb and EWI agree the cross-promotion of training and membership with a view to promoting the relevant training and membership for the Expert Witness community.
7 December Industry News The short answer is No Should you challenge an expert's view without calling them to court? Expert evidence, Expert Report
7 December Industry News Appeal arguing that a single joint expert should have been male rejected equal representation A case of interest (particularly in the light of the Equal Representation for Expert Witnesses (ERE) initiative)
7 December Industry News Attack on expert's credibility rejected Expert evidence, Credibility, Cross-examination, reliability 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 Industry News Modes of address in courts and tribunals Lord Chief Justice and Senior President of Tribunals have announced an immediate change in practice.
2 December EWI News EWI welcome Westbury Collections Ltd as Supplier Partner supplier partner The Expert Witness Institute is pleased to announce that Westbury Collections Ltd is joining them as their latest Supplier Partner.
14 November Case Updates 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 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.