Overview
This webinar offers a comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of the most important procedural issues currently affecting personal injury practice. Designed for both new and experienced practitioners, it will guide attendees through the latest developments, highlight emerging challenges, and clarify essential steps in managing personal injury claims.
Learning outcomes
Key areas of procedure and practice will be examined in depth, including:
- Issue and service: recent cases and common pitfalls
- Surveillance evidence: considerations on admissibility
- Factual evidence: requirements for form, content, admissibility, and effective use
- Expert evidence: managing risks associated with expert witnesses
- Part 36: avoiding errors and navigating revisions or withdrawals of offers
- Other significant procedural developments
- Practical tactics and strategic considerations
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Frances McCarthy is managing partner of Pattinson & Brewer where she heads up the personal injury department. She is the past president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and is a former member of the Civil Justice Council.
She is qualified CEDR mediator and jointly with Tim Wallis mediated various costs issues at the request of the Civil Justice Council, including the levels of success fees to be claimed in personal injury cases. She helped to set up Trust Mediation with Tim Wallis, Sir Henry Brook and others.
She is a senior fellow of APIL and was a member of Lord Woolf’s working party which developed the personal injury pre-action protocols... view full biography
APIL Past President, Director of Switalskis Solicitors Ltd
John McQuater qualified as a solicitor in 1983 and is a Director of Personal Injury, and member of the Complex Injury Team, at Switalskis Solicitors.
He is a member of the Law Society Clinical Negligence Accreditation Scheme and a member of the Law Society Personal Injury Accreditation Scheme (as well as being an assessor for that scheme). He had, whilst the scheme was operation, Catastrophic Injury Accreditation from the Law Society... view full biography