Introduction
Leading barristers suggest that approximately 80% of personal injury reports written by medical experts do not properly deal with the medico-legal issues essential to achieving a just settlement. This seminar has been designed to develop your skills so that you can fully meet your obligations under the Civil Procedure Rules and the Practice Directions.
A fundamental difficulty for all medical expert witnesses is the lack of feedback on their reports from solicitors. Instructing solicitors do not usually help experts to identify the strengths and weaknesses in their medical reports, which results in experts repeating errors and misunderstandings without ever being challenged - sometimes for many years.
This course will address difficult issues faced by medical experts, such as understanding the implications of legalcausation, reporting on multiple accidents, handling difficulties in diagnosis, and fully reporting on complex recoveries.
Course Content
• Effective report writing in civil claims
• Personal injury workshop:
- applying a structured approach to the claim
- reviewing the Schedule of Damages
- analysing phases of the claim
• Drafting high quality evidence
- establishing the causation baseline
- accurately describing the injury, treatment and recovery
- effects on settlement
• Difficulties in personal injury report writing
- two accident-report templates
- physical / psychological paradox section
• Report writing workshop
• Clinical negligence workshop
- identifying the core components of the claim
- applying Bolam in the clinical negligence report
Speaker/s
• LYNDEN ALEXANDER is a communication skills consultant who has worked extensively leading
consultancies across the professions. He offers training in presentation skills, writing skills and inter-personal communication skills. He leads the forensic report writing programme at Professional Solutions - a leading litigation support company - where he has trained more than 4000 expert witnesses in expert report writing and courtroom presentation skills. He also designs and delivers integrated communication skills training programmes for a number of consultancies.
He has a first-class honours degree in English from London University, is a qualified practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (with an emphasis on advanced learning skills) and has ten years experience working
with visualisation techniques. Before working in the field of learning and development, he was a Eurobond and Equity Derivatives trader in
the City of London.
Our barristers are leading legal figures in their fields and include one from:
• PAUL DIXON is a partner in Molesworths Bright Clegg, solicitors of Rochdale, Lancashire. He is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and he is the head of the firm’s personal injury department which specialises in work for claimants. The department deals with all types of personal injury claims, including road traffic accidents, public and occupiers’ liability claims, employers’ liability claims, product liability claims, clinical negligence and accidents abroad. Paul has been presenting seminars for Professional Solutions for a number of years.
• GILES EYRE was called to the Bar in 1974 and practises from 9 Gough Square Chambers, London. He specialises in personal injury and clinical negligence claims including those arising from medical accidents. He is a member of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers and the Personal Injury Bar Association. Over the past six years he has taken part in many training days for medical expert witnesses.
• RUPERT BUTLER studied law at Manchester University and is a Barrister of both the Middle Temple and of the King’s Inns, Dublin. His practice includes all aspects of commercial and company law (both advisory work and litigation in all courts and tribunals), insolvency (corporate and personal), clinical and professional negligence and personal injury (both claimant and defendant). He is trained in dispute resolution and in mediation. He has a special interest in media law and has substantial experience of acting for national newspapers and periodicals, including acting as retained counsel to a firm of solicitors specialising in media and intellectual property law. He lectures on the Law Society’s continuing education programme for practising solicitors. Rupert’s areas of practice are general commercial and common law; insolvency; personal injury and employment law.
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