We are delighted to be heading down to London, for APIL's 2024 'Expert Evidence Conference - Winning Cases and Winning Trials'.
Taking place at 7BR Chambers, this full day programme will cover the following topics:
Keynote address
- Speaker: Hugh Preston KC, 7 Bedford Row, London
The role of an expert witness through the litigation process
- Trial bundles, pre-trial hearings
- Preparation of trial, expert meetings, Part 35 meetings
- Positive interaction between case manager and solicitor
- Speaker: Ian Christian, FieldFisher, London
Expert evidence in the witness box
- Speaker: Tom Quick, Consultant Surgeon, Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UK
Counsel overview
- Pitfalls that experts fall into
- What mistakes are made early on?
- Speaker: Richard Baker, APIL EC Member, 7BR, London
Mock cross-examination
- Practical demonstration of how to cope under cross examination
- Speakers: Conor Dufficy, Barrister, 7BR, London
- Sarah Edwards, Barrister, 7BR, London
Closing panel session
- Speakers: Richard Baker, APIL EC Member, 7BR, London
- Ian Christian, Irwin Mitchell LLP, London
- Sarah Edwards, Barrister, 7BR, London
- Hugh Preston KC, 7 Bedford Row, London