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Advice on Expert Fees after CXR v Dome Holdings
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Advice on Expert Fees after CXR v Dome Holdings

bySean Mosby

 

This article was originally published in the autumn 2024 edition of Expert Matters

Introduction

Many expert witnesses, primarily in medico-legal work, use a third-party organisation to help them in their practice. If you use an organisation which invoices the instructing solicitor for your services, you should be aware of legal developments which might affect the information that organisation needs to provide, in order to recover their bill as part of the legal costs recovered at the end of the case.

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