11 July Giving Oral Evidence Reviewing your opinion and the need for better analysis and reports from Care Experts Benjamin Scarcliffe v Brampton Valley Group Ltd [2023] EWHC 1565(KB) provides important direction and lessons to be learned for Expert Witnesses
5 July Industry News Updated guidance on the use of Psychologists as Expert Witnesses in the family courts in England and Wales Psychology, family court, guidance, British Psychological Society, regulation Joint document by the Family Justice Council and the BPS provides a set of guidelines for how to instruct expert witnesses in family proceedings.
4 July EWI News S-RM approved as an EWI Corporate Partner EWI Corporate Partner, Digital Forensics EWI is delighted to announce that S-RM has been approved as a Corporate Partner.
18 June Starting your Expert Witness Business Results of the ERE survey make sobering reading equal representation In 2022, women were appointed as the sole expert witness in just 10% of disputes worldwide,
18 June Rules and Regulations Criminal Procedure Rules: new criminal practice directions Criminal practice directions On 29 May 2023 new criminal practice directions came into force. They are now organised as a set of chapters. Chapter 7 deals with Expert Evidence. There are several changes to note.
18 June Rules and Regulations de Renee v Galbraith-Marten (Rev) [2022] EWFC 118 Procedure rules, family court “The perils of being instructed by a party without the court’s permission”
6 June Case Updates M (A Child: Leave to Oppose Adoption) [2023] EWCA Civ 404 Psychology, Psychiatry, Treating doctor “Addressing treatability in a family case”
6 June Case Updates North Bristol NHS Trust v R [2023] EWCOP 5 Psychiatry, Capacity, Consent, Caesarean section “Capacity to consent to elective Caesarean section”
6 June Case Updates Watts v Watts [2023] EWHC 679 (Ch) General, Handwriting, Document examination, Forgery “It’s a forgery”
6 June Case Updates Maidstone Borough Council v Beck [2023] EWHC 787 (Admin) Psychiatry, Hoarding disorder, Schizotypal disorder “The impact of a hoarding disorder”