This webinar will help you understand the issues relating to, and help minimise, risks of re-traumatisation through arrangements for expert evidence and will include:
- A reminder of the forensic approach to expert evidence: what is admissible; and what is “reasonably required” for Part 35 CPR
- When should the need for expert evidence (by all parties) be addressed and how
- Joint selection?
- Joint instruction?
- Agreeing terms for any meeting with an expert instructed by the defendant (and when to deal with this)
- Terms and conditions
- Dealing with the factual background
- Timing
- Minimising the risk of re-traumatisation
- Tactical considerations relating to exchange (PD 16 CPR and case management directions)
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