Expert Matters - The Podcast

Topics:           Experts’ duties

                        Impartiality

                        Concurrent expert evidence (‘hot-tubbing’) 

Topics:                       Psychiatric reports

                                    Expert’s declaration

                                    Self-report questionnaires

                                    Suicide risk

                                    General practitioner records

                                    Qualifications and experience

                                    PHQ-9

                                    GAD-7

Topics:           Complex post-traumatic stress disorder

                        Vulnerable persons/witnesses

                        Ground rules hearing

                        Intermediary

In preparing independent and objective evidence for the court, some experts will have experienced being challenged by the client, who does not like or agree with what has been said.

Having completed a report for a criminal case an issue has been raised whereby the police require access to my working notes. 

Having prepared a report for a criminal case the ‘Probation Service’ has requested that the report be released including a signed consent form from the client.

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

Relevance:     General

Relevence:  General

Relevance:      General

Topics:            Disclosure of instructions

                        Disclosure of documents relied upon

                        Retention of records of investigations carried out

                        Cooperation with the adverse party’s experts           

                        Guidance for the Instruction of Experts in Civil Claims 2014

                        CPR Part 35

                        TCC Guide

                        Independence

                        Experts meetings