On 8 November Bond Solon held the 25th Bond Solon Expert Witness Conference at Church House in Westminster. Demand for the conference had been particularly high, leading to a fully-booked event. Nearly 500 expert witnesses were in attendance and there were over 50 expert witnesses on the waiting list.
That upsurge in demand for places was in part due to the expert witness guidance issued in May by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges. The guidance stated that healthcare expert witnesses must undertake formal expert witness training and keep that training up to date with appropriate refresher courses and activities.
Demand was also driven by a number of high-profile cases involving expert witnesses who have had their expert witness evidence deemed inadmissible or criticised. Those cases were reviewed at the conference.
The keynote speech at the conference was delivered by Sir Peter Gross. Sir Peter’s paper addressed the issue of standards in the work of expert witnesses. Sir Peter was followed by Lord Woolf (pictured), who reflected on changes to the Civil Procedure Rules.
Nothing stays the same; is everything changing? That is the theme of this year’s Annual Conference of the Expert Witness Institute (EWI), to be held on 26 September at the Church House Conference Centre in London.
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Nothing stays the same; is everything changing?
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