Working with Expert Witnesses: Joint Expert Meetings Working with Expert Witnesses: Joint Expert Meetings

Working with Expert Witnesses: Joint Expert Meetings

In the sixth article in the Working with expert witnesses series, Alexandra Winch a Partner at Stewarts, discusses her experience of...
EWI releases workforce mapping research report EWI releases workforce mapping research report

EWI releases workforce mapping research report

This research has provided the first-ever assessment of the size and characteristics of the Expert Witness workforce in the UK.
Podcast Episode 30: Mapping the Expert Witness Workforce Podcast Episode 30: Mapping the Expert Witness Workforce

Podcast Episode 30: Mapping the Expert Witness Workforce

This month on the Expert Matters Podcast, Simon and EWI's Membership Manager, Will Watkiss, discuss the EWI's project to map the Expert Witness...
EWI Guidance on Acting for Litigants in Person EWI Guidance on Acting for Litigants in Person

EWI Guidance on Acting for Litigants in Person

We have revised our recently published Guidance for experts on acting for litigants in person. After engagement with members, we have decided to amend...

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Fixed Recoverable Costs Interim Implementation Stocktake
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Fixed Recoverable Costs Interim Implementation Stocktake

We are reposting our update on the Fixed Recoverable Costs Stocktake Consultation. It is important for the Civil Procedure Rule Committee's Stocktake to be fully informed by the knowledge and experiences of expert witnesses, so do please take the time to complete our survey with the consultation questions by 21 December 2025.

Fixed Recoverable Costs Interim Implementation Stocktake
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Fixed Recoverable Costs Interim Implementation 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. 

Postponement of the Extended Fixed Recoverable Costs Stocktake and Uprating of Fixed Cost Medical Reports
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Postponement of the Extended Fixed Recoverable Costs Stocktake and Uprating of Fixed Cost Medical Reports

The Civil Procedure Rule Committee (‘Committee) decided, provisionally, to postpone the extended Fixed Recoverable Cost (‘FRC’) stocktake, which was initially planned for February 2025, until October 2025, while the the cost which may be recovered to obtain medical reports in low value road traffic accident related soft tissue and whiplash injury claims is being uprated by 25.4%.