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.