Many experts must be thinking is it worth
doing expert witness work as the potential consequences of giving evidence that is found wanting can be catastrophic.
What's more, most of the respondents (57 %) saw
expert witness work as an expanding part of their workload, similar to the view expressed in 2003 and 2005.
He became involved in litigation consulting and municipal
bonds expert witness work 30 years ago when he began receiving calls from counsel involved in litigation relating to municipal bonds.
For some financial advisers,
expert witness work creates a substantial secondary income - especially in uncertain economic times, when people anxious to recoup losses may return litigation.
We also
undertake expert witness work in respect to mechanical & electrical engineering services, being retained either directly by the instructing client or by their legal representatives.
Speaking at Bond Solon's annual expert witness conference in November, Senior Presiding Judge for England and Wales Lord Justice Goldring gave his judicial perspective and a valuable glimpse into the future direction
of expert witness work.
Our services cover all areas of financial consulting
including expert witness work, employee training and facilitation, corporate advisory work, and outsourced chief investment officer (OCIO) work.
Both draft Orders also require the LSC to implement maximum fixed and hourly rates for all legally
aided expert witness work, with effect from October 2011.
Our forensic accounting team has its roots in
expert witness work for courts in the UK and the US, together with cross-border fraud and corruption investigations in many different jurisdictions.
A snapshot survey carried out earlier this month at the Bond Solon Expert Witness Conference — attended by more than 450 experts — shows that average income from
expert witness work rose from # 95,055 in 2004 to # 120,538 in 2006.
At the same time, if an appraiser does
much expert witness work, or if they should find themselves in a situation where they are giving testimony related to their work, I can also foresee some potential pitfalls.
It is worth con - sidering time management courses, because many are carrying out
expert witness work in their spare time and at weekends if they are practising in the week, or interviewing skills because many experts are required to gather facts from face - to - face encounters with parties or witnesses.
Even worse, the first proposal of Bearing Good Witness seems to make doctors compellable to give expert evidence for the first time, by establishing this as part of their employment contracts, abolishing the lack of compellability which is a key feature
of expert witness work.
In fact, the FCA requirement for financial institutions to operate complaints schemes, as well as a number of extensive regulator - led remedial schemes, and the financial and other ombudsman services, means a lot of work is done to avoid litigation — but this means advisory experts are needed and the experience I can bring to
expert witness work is founded on a wide range of exposure obtained through consultancy.
At that time, I decided I had sufficient experience of investment mis - selling — and of
expert witness work — to leave and set up my own consultancy, and I have worked in these areas for nearly twenty - five years.
My approach to
expert witness work has always revolved around the facts that in the large and complex area of financial products many problems come to the surface; and whereas there are many people needing advice, only a very small proportion of the problems end in litigation.
Their expert witness work was a side business run out of their homes.
With respect to
expert witness work, there are times when I am unable to provide opinions that are asked of me.
The difficulty is that
expert witness work is not the same as NHS orthopaedics.
GVA has a UK wide network of surveyors experienced in
expert witness work, many of whom are also RICS accredited experts, and who cover the full set of property skill sets and hence potential areas of dispute in real estate in Courts, Tribunals and Inquiries, and alternative dispute resolution arenas, such as Mediation.
Sharon is an experienced psychologist with unique skills in public protection (including child protection), psychological assessments,
expert witness work and psychotherapy.
Forty - five per cent of experts said the number of instructions has gone up and 67 % said they felt optimistic or very optimistic about
their expert witness work in the future.
Mark Solon, Director of Bond Solon, interviewed Asma Khalil, Consultant in Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist, on how
her expert witness work has helped her in her profession.
The question now is: How can we reduce cognitive bias in
expert witness work?
Mechanical engineer Chris Farrone,
an expert witness working with Todd Smith, said the weld was «superficial» and lacked the proper strength needed to prevent its breakage.
How they organise and run
their expert witness work if it is an offshoot of their usual «day - job».
There are multiple phases from initiation to discovery to motion practice to
expert witness work to pretrial planning to the trial itself.
The Court of Appeal decided, in Meadow v General Medical Council [2006] EWCA Civ 1390, [2007] 1 All ER 1, that professional regulatory bodies will have a disciplinary role with respect to their members who carry out
expert witness work.
Clearly, these individuals are much involved in
expert witness work but have an even more extensive commitment to their professions — which is, of course, exactly as it should be.
Are there any UK medico - legal regulations that particularly challenge
your expert witness work in this segment?