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07 November 2019 / Dr Chris Pamplin
Issue: 7863 / Categories: Features , Profession , Expert Witness
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Expert analysis: life as an expert witness in 2019

Dr Chris Pamplin maps the results & gauges the mood of this year’s UK Register of Expert Witnesses’  survey
  • The experts who responded are much involved in expert witness work but still have a strong commitment to their professions.
  • In 2013, 40% of respondents had been asked to provide a costs budget. This had increased to 63% in 2017 but has fallen back to 47% in 2019.

As the largest multidisciplinary expert witness community in the UK, the experienced individuals listed in the UK Register of Expert Witnesses represent an unrivalled source of information on matters of importance to experts and those who instruct them. Since 1995, the Register has regularly conducted surveys of its expert witnesses. The following analysis is based on the latest survey conducted over the summer.

The experts

Of the 227 experts who responded by the end of August 2019, 96 were medical practitioners. Of the remaining experts, 37 were engineers, 18 were in professions ancillary to medicine, 15 were

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