Lessons for Expert Witnesses from O'Neill v Scottish Ambulance Service  Board:... Lessons for Expert Witnesses from O'Neill v Scottish Ambulance Service Board:...

Lessons for Expert Witnesses from O'Neill v Scottish Ambulance Service Board:...

The decision in O'Neill v Scottish Ambulance Service Board [2025] CSOH 17 provides important guidance on the legal and professional standards...
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Do not leave it until cross-examination to reveal your true opinion

The Claimant suffered serious injuries in a road traffic accident after the Defendant, who was driving out of a side road, collided with the...
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This month, on the Expert Matters Podcast, we take a look at the issues and challenges of being an expert advisor versus an expert witness, and...

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Aerotoxic syndrome
Case Updates

Aerotoxic syndrome

Personal injury claims are being brought by approximately 220 pilots and cabin crew at the High Court in London on the grounds of aerotoxic syndrome (ATS). This group of claimants includes 51 claims which were issued by Thompsons in March 2019 involving pilots and cabin crew working for EasyJet, British Airways, Thomas Cook, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic. These two claims are not included in these ongoing English collective proceedings. These were claims by two pilots who lost the chance of bringing successful claims as a result of the admitted negligence of a Scottish law practice.

Gough v Cannons Law Practice; Montague-Trenchard v Cannons Law Practice (Court of Session) [2025] CSOH 28 

Aderounmu v Colvin [2021] EWHC 2293 (QB)
Case Updates

Aderounmu v Colvin [2021] EWHC 2293 (QB)

Relevance:      Psychiatry

                        Neuropsychiatry

                        Neuropsychology
 

Topics:            Capacity

                        Litigation capacity

Long v Elegant Resorts Limited [2021] EWHC 1330 (QB)
Case Updates

Long v Elegant Resorts Limited [2021] EWHC 1330 (QB)

Relevance:      Neuropsychiatry

           Neuropsychology

           Psychiatry

           Psychology

 

Topics:            Amnesia

         Brain damage

                        Head injury

                        Somatisation

                        Experts’ meeting

                        Exaggeration / dishonesty

                        Neuropsychological testing