The conference is intended for all legal practitioners and medico-legal experts, to focus on trial preparation and what to expect once in the court room. The importance of preparing evidence to present the case at its best to a judge is essential whether the evidence ever reaches a judge or not. Given the rarity of trials, this event is an opportunity to upskill and gain invaluable insight into the most important area of the litigation process.
Topics include:
Keynote address
- Speaker: Hugh Preston KC, 7 Bedford Row, London
The role of an expert witness through the litigation process
- Trial bundles, pre-trial hearings
- Preparation of trial, expert meetings, Part 35 meetings
- Positive interaction between case manager and solicitor
- Speakers: Ian Christian, FieldFisher, London and Dr Megan Smith, Consultant Anaesthetist, Guy&apos
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Expert evidence in the witness box
- Speaker: Tom Quick, Consultant Surgeon, Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UK
Counsel overview
- Pitfalls that experts fall into
- What mistakes are made early on?
- Speaker: Richard Baker, APIL EC Member, 7BR, London
Mock cross-examination
- Practical demonstration of how to cope under cross examination
- Speakers: Conor Dufficy, Barrister, 7BR, London
- Sarah Edwards, Barrister, 7BR, London
Closing panel session
- Speakers: Richard Baker, APIL EC Member, 7BR, London
- Ian Christian, Irwin Mitchell LLP, London
- Sarah Edwards, Barrister, 7BR, London
- Hugh Preston KC, 7 Bedford Row, London