“I found this to be a bewildering answer. It suggested that medical textbooks deliberately provided doctors with false information about the range of CD4 in the healthy population in order to encourage them to give inaccurate advice to HIV patients that they were making progress. In order to make good such a dramatic assertion one would have expected to see some form of substantiation in evidence…   Unsurprisingly there was none.”

Expert evidence is crucial to clinical negligence cases, both in terms of establishing liability and causation. The result  of the action will, in most cases, depend on which experts’ evidence is accepted at trial.

This webinar takes a close look at the way in which the courts consider expert evidence at trial in clinical negligence actions and the reasons that expert evidence is not accepted.

Issues considered include:

• Red flags. When the expert does not comply with the CPR 35 requirements
• “Not an expert at all”
• An expert with no expertise in the area they were reporting in
• “Red flags” for expert evidence
• “Closely run” cases – what tips the balance?