Expert Witness Supplement - Spring 2016

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Solicitors Journal, in partnership with Bond Solon, has just published the Spring edition of their Expert Witness supplement.

Highlights include:

  • Current trends: The use of retired experts and the introduction of randomised selection through the MedCo portal are just some of the issues currently concerning expert witnesses, says Mark Solon 
  • Practice: Experts need court skills as well as technical expertise, write Dr John Fletcher and Michael Williams
  • Family: Kevin Gibbs considers the reasons behind the rising number of care applications
  • Forensic Accounting: Are single joint experts the way ahead, asks Richard Formby
  • Medico-Legal: Understanding of chronic pain in soft tissue injuries is developing, explains Chris Worsfold
  • Fees: Richard Emery reveals some of the problems faced by experts in the wake of legal aid cuts
  • Forensic Meteorology: John Coates-Greetham describes the role of past weather records in legal cases.