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MedCo chooses Bond Solon and Docslot to accredit expert witnesses
Monday, 19 October 2015MedCo, the new system for sourcing medical reports in whiplash cases, has announced that Bond Solon and Docslot have been chosen as the first two companies to accredit experts.
Tags: expert evidence, MedCo, personal injury, whiplash
Posted in MoJ claims process, News
Neuberger unsure of benefits of single joint experts
Monday, 10 November 2014The use of single joint experts could render the judge purely a “figure head” in proceedings, the president of the Supreme Court has warned. But Lord Neuberger questioned whether the present system of cross-examination of experts is the best way to proceed.
Tags: expert evidence, Expert witnesses
Posted in Experts, News
Poll: no increase in use of single joint experts post-Jackson
Wednesday, 13 November 2013There is little sign of the Jackson reforms achieving the goal of an increase in single joint experts being instructed, new research has indicated. A survey of 165 experts found that just 14% said the number of instructions to act as a single joint expert had gone up.
Tags: expert evidence
Posted in Experts, News
Experts acclimatise to tougher post-Jackson life
Wednesday, 25 September 2013The post-Jackson climate for expert witnesses is “leaner and meaner”, according to a leading observer of their work. Mark Solon, managing director of Bond Solon Training, said the pressure was coming both from the courts and from instructing solicitors.
Tags: expert evidence
Posted in Experts, Jackson reforms, News
1 April set in stone as government unveils further statutory instruments to implement LASPO
Wednesday, 30 January 2013Any hopes that the 1 April implementation of the Jackson reforms might be delayed have been ended by a statutory instrument that seems to set the date in stone. The news comes as the government laid two further orders before Parliament that will bring further aspects of the reforms into force on that day.
Tags: ATE insurance, clinical negligence, expert evidence, Jackson report, Legal Aid Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act, part 36
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, News
Survey highlights need for claimant lawyers to take initiative in whiplash debate
Tuesday, 13 November 2012Claimant personal injury lawyers need to focus less on the compensation would-be clients could win and also to convince the public that whiplash is a real injury, a survey of consumers has indicated. It was presented during a wide-ranging debate on whiplash at last week’s MASS conference.
Tags: expert evidence, small claims, whiplash
Posted in Experts, News
Top judge backs benefits to court of hot-tubbing
Tuesday, 13 November 2012Concurrent evidence from expert witnesses – or ‘hot-tubbing’ – is worth doing if it even if it just saves court time rather than costs, the senior presiding judge said last week. Lord Justice Goldring also warned experts over rumours of padding their hours since legal aid rates were cut.
Tags: expert evidence, hot-tubbing
Posted in Experts, News
Ex-RJW partner bids to “reinvent” medical reports process by separating procurement from diagnosis
Wednesday, 7 November 2012A former Russell Jones & Walker partner is bidding to “reinvent” the medico-legal process in low-value personal injury claims with a new service that will “redress the imbalance which predisposes evidence to favour the instructing party”.
Tags: expert evidence, medical report, medical reporting organisation, MRO, whiplash
Posted in Experts, News
AJAG attacks ‘flawed’ government plans for recoverable expert reports ATE
Thursday, 27 September 2012Government plans for recoverable after-the-event (ATE) insurance for expert reports in clinical negligence cases are fundamentally flawed, it has been warned. The Access to Justice Group repeatedly criticised the proposals for starting from the “incorrect premise” that each case is individual.
Tags: ATE insurance, clinical negligence, expert evidence
Posted in ATE/CFA, Jackson reforms, News
Costs pilots extended as new experts guidance is published
Tuesday, 31 July 2012The three costs pilots running in the county court and High Court are set to be extended for a further six months, it has emerged. The draft 59th update of the Civil Procedure Rules says that the pilots should now run until 31 March 2013.
Tags: costs management, expert evidence, mediation, provisional assessment
Posted in ADR, Experts, General, Jackson reforms, News