“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.
- 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?
Live or on-demand
We encourage all attendees to watch the webinar live - this gives people the opportunity to ask questions and participate in polls.
All people registered for the webinar will automatically be emailed details to view the online recording following the webinar, whether you view live or not. Recordings are available to view for up to six months.