Topics:           Nature of expert evidence
                       Fact v opinion
                       Reliance on subject’s self-reported history

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.

Charlotte Wells & Co is the latest organisation to join EWI’s Corporate Partnership scheme.

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 core competencies framework for Expert Witnesses sets out the attributes, knowledge, and skills that experts must develop if they wish to act as an Expert Witness.

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.

The case: Dr Bux appealed against the findings of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal and against its decision directing his erasure from the Medical Register.

The case: a claim arising out of the sale, by the Claimants (and the other shareholders) to the Defendant of their shareholdings contending that they were induced to sell by actionable misrepresentations.