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NLJ this week: What about the experts?

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19 February 2021
Issue: 7921 / Categories: Legal News , Expert Witness , Technology , Profession
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Writing in this week’s NLJ, Mark Solon asks: where do expert witnesses fit into the new Master of the Rolls’ promised ‘radical rethink’ of civil justice?

Sir Geoffrey Vos QC has underlined his commitment to technological solutions, commenting that ‘the UK legal community needs to be ambitious in terms of digitalisation’. However, Solon says, expert witnesses ‘are not lawyers, but specialists assisting lawyers and courts, and with a day job. How will they keep up with a maelstrom of changes?’

Nonetheless, Solon also highlights the benefits of IT for the expert witness process, as well as pointing out some potential new income streams for them.

Issue: 7921 / Categories: Legal News , Expert Witness , Technology , Profession
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