Expert Witness Training
for Medical Professionals (England)

Dr Tom Boyd, GP and Expert Witness

• CPR35 and PD35 – understanding your duties as an expert witness, standards and protocols
• The roles of various players: client, claims management company, solicitor, barrister, judge and other witnesses
• What to expect from instructing parties
• Identifying the issues that need to be addressed in your report
• Examination and discussion of sample reports – good and bad
• Preparing, structuring and writing your medical report to successfully argue your conclusion
• The use of research and supporting information to support your conclusion
• Q&A

Isabel Bathurst, Inspire MediLaw

In this session, Isabel covers all the essential aspects of GDPR that you need to know to run your medico-legal practice.

Mr Richard Kerr, Neurosurgeon and Expert Witness
Royal College of Surgeons of England Council Member and Trustee
Immediate Past President of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons

• Tips and pitfalls of medico-legal practice
• Presenting your medico-legal opinion
• Q&A

Paul Sankey, Partner at Enable Law and Clinical Negligence Solicitor

• Understand what lawyers are looking for and the language they use
• Consent post-Montgomery
• Understanding the issues of proportionality
• The cost process and how it impacts on your fees
• Use of medical records
• Part 35 questions and joint statements – the lawyer’s perspective
• Joint statements – agreeing an agenda and preparing for the meeting with your opposing expert
• Attending experts’ meetings
• Q&A

Dr Simon Fox QC, Clinical Negligence Barrister at Serjeants’ Inn Chambers

• Making sure your report is prepared for trial
• Preparing for the witness box
• Pre-trial conferences
• Courtroom procedure and etiquette
• Examination in chief
• Cross-examination
• Questions from the judge
• When things go wrong
• Role play
• Q&A

His Honour Charles Harris QC

• View from the bench
• The role of the expert
• Hearing expert evidence
• Q&A