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Spotlight on the experts

20 February 2019
Issue: 7829 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Expert Witness
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One-third of expert witnesses have considered giving up, while two-thirds would stop doing legal aid work if expert witness fees were reduced, Bond Solon’s annual survey has found.

Complaints included increased administration, more complex work, more pressure, less pay, shorter deadlines and not being appreciated by solicitors. Writing in NLJ this week, Bond Solon founder Mark Solon says the risk of experts being sued for their work has risen since the 2011 case of Jones v Kaney [2011] UKSC 13, while the increase in litigants in person can only add to their woes.

Elsewhere, in this week’s NLJ expert witness supplement, forensic accountant George Sim, consultant at Sim Kapila, explains the factors to be taken into consideration when calculating loss of profits; and chartered surveyor Martin Burns outlines the duties of the expert witness.

Issue: 7829 / Categories: Legal News , Profession , Expert Witness
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MOVERS & SHAKERS

DWF—19 appointments

DWF—19 appointments

Belfast team bolstered by three senior hires and 16 further appointments

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Cadwalader—Andro Atlaga

Firm strengthens leveraged finance team with London partner hire

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Knights—Ella Dodgson & Rebecca Laffan

Double hire marks launch of family team in Leeds

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Charlie Mercer and Astrid Gillam of Stewarts crunch the numbers on civil fraud claims in the English courts, in this week's NLJ. New data shows civil fraud claims rising steadily since 2014, with the King’s Bench Division overtaking the Commercial Court as the forum of choice for lower-value disputes
Bea Rossetto of the National Pro Bono Centre makes the case for ‘General Practice Pro Bono’—using core legal skills to deliver life-changing support, without the need for niche expertise—in this week's NLJ
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve reports on Haynes v Thomson, the first judicial application of the Supreme Court’s For Women Scotland ruling in a discrimination claim, in this week's NLJ
The Supreme Court issued a landmark judgment in July that overturned the convictions of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo, once poster boys of the Libor and Euribor scandal. In NLJ this week, Neil Swift of Peters & Peters considers what the ruling means for financial law enforcement
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