14 November News 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, 06. Rules and Regulations, 15. Giving Oral Evidence, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits 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.
25 October Case Updates R v Fitzsimmons v [2022] NICC 27 Bias, Voice attribution experts, Visual identification experts, Acoustic analysis, Auditory analysis, 07. Receiving Instructions, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits “Can your paper trail be followed?”
25 October Case Updates Wegner v Murphy [2022] IEHC 525 Medical experts, Redacted reports, 11. Report Writing, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits “What if I am provided with incomplete or redacted medical records?”
25 October Case Updates Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council v Mailley [2022] EWHC 2328 (QB) Psychiatry, Hoarding disorder, ICD/DSM, Disability, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits “Does your diagnosis have to be in a recognised international classification?” Relevance: Psychiatry
25 October Case Updates Hertfordshire County Council v Mothers [2022] EWFC 106 Duty of Expert, 11. Report Writing, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits “Getting named as the expert in a family case” The case: a fact-finding hearing in respect of children
11 October Day in the life What I Do - The Expert in Clinical Microbiology 03. Setting Fees and Getting Paid, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Professor S J Eykyn - Clinical Microbiology
10 October Day in the life The ever changing world of illicit drugs 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Fiona Coope - Business Manager for Environmental Scientifics Group Forensics
4 October Day in the life A day in the life of a Metallurgy Expert Witness 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Eur Ing SIMON CLARKE, Metallurgist
26 September Day in the life A day in the life of a mesothelioma expert witness 11. Report Writing, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Charlotte Wells & Company provide an insight into the amazing work undertaken by those acting as expert witnesses in litigation relating to Mesothelioma.
22 September Case Updates Dixon v North Bristol NHS Trust [2022] EWHC 1871 (QB) Suicide risk, Psychiatry, 11. Report Writing, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Psychiatry Topics: Suicide risk