Insights for medico-legal experts from the Expert Witness Institute Conference 2020
Simon Berney-Edwards, Chief Executive of the Expert Witness Institute and Peter Mulhern, MAPS Trustee and Expert Witness Institute Governor, report on…
All change with the Declaration and Statement of Truth
In this article Giles Eyre considers the amendment to the Practice Direction on Statements of Truth and the issues relating…
Remote medical examinations in medico-legal practice
In this article Giles Eyre considers the issues relating to the increased demand for use of remote (or video) medical…
Career ending consequences of false or misleading medical reports
Is your statement of truth, true? If not, cease practice now! This article continues the look at the dangers of…
Learning from Dr Zafar’s medical reporting mistakes
This article considers the dangers of responding to pressure from an instructing solicitor. Go to gaol, go directly to gaol…
Acceleration and Exacerbation: addressing the terms when writing medico-legal reports
‘Acceleration’ is condoned by the courts as an unsophisticated and not unduly analytical approach to a common situation in personal…
Acceleration and Exacerbation: a definition
The terms ‘acceleration’ and ‘exacerbation’ are not medical or legal terms of art. They have no defined meaning, and indeed…
Causation in medico-legal reporting: injury, symptoms, effects and consequences
When addressing causation of damage, one area of confusion for medical experts (and unfortunately for many instructing lawyers) is the…
New evidence questions the effectiveness of shoulder pain surgery as a treatment
Shoulder pain is very common; approximately two-thirds of people experience it at some point during their life. One of the…
Using CBT as a recovery tool after a serious injury
Rehabilitation plays a pivotal role in the recovery process for a patient who has suffered a serious injury as a…
Why it’s essential to understand causation in medico-legal reporting
To succeed in a claim for damages for personal injury, and this is equally applicable to clinical negligence claims, it…
The evolution of medical negligence claims
If you are a lawyer who acts for clients in medical negligence claims, medical evidence is crucial to proving that…
The golden rule in medico-legal report writing
A sad truth! Discussions amongst lawyers about experts’ reports often come back to the failings of the expert and the…
MedCo proposal set out by government is fundamentally flawed, warns medico-legal reporting experts
MedCo is a system that facilitates the sourcing of medical reports in soft tissue injury claims brought under the Ministry…
A comprehensive guide to proving psychiatric injury
The law on claiming for a psychiatric injury isn’t as simple as making a claim for a physical personal injury….