17 March News EWI guidance for experts approached by unscrupulous expert witness agencies 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, 07. Receiving Instructions, 02. Working with Agencies or Panels, Unethical agencies, 08. Working with Instructing Parties While there are many respectable and legitimate expert witness agencies who provide brilliant support to the expert witnesses who work with them, the EWI has had continuing reports of the activities of some unethical agencies who prey upon experts who do not have a good understanding of expert witness work or who may be vulnerable to such approaches for other reasons. We do not want any expert to fall victim to an unscrupulous agency, so we have prepared a short guide setting out the red flags to watch out for in the approach of an unethical agency and, conversely, the sorts of positive signs to expect from a respectable and legitimate agency, including a quick checklist to complete.
18 February Case Updates Medical reporting agency at work Medical Reporting Organisation, MRO, 02. Working with Agencies or Panels, 11. Report Writing The issue in this judicial review did not turn on the expert evidence but the case illustrates the role of a medical reporting organisation (MRO) in a particular civil case and there are some general learning points. Of note, the MRO did not arrange the correction of an erroneous date, it did not recognise how the evidence set out by the expert was seemingly insufficiently referenced and it did not recognise that there would be questions as to how some of the expert’s conclusions were reached. Ivory, R (On the Application Of) v Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council [2025] EWCA Civ 21
14 February Podcast Podcast Episode 9: Becoming an Expert Witness 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, 03. Setting Fees and Getting Paid, 04. Marketing, 17. Maintaining your professional edge, Expert Witness Training, 02. Working with Agencies or Panels, 06. Rules and Regulations In the 9th episode of the Expert Matters Podcast, we look at how to become an Expert Witnesss. If you think expert witness work might be for you, don't miss the great advice in this month's episode where we talk to the wider EWI team on expert witness training, how to become an EWI member, and the key next steps to get your practice up and running, from setting up your business, terms and conditions, and insurance to sorting out your CV, marketing strategy and web presence.
31 January Case Updates JXX v Scott Archibald [2025] EWHC 69 (SCCO) 03. Setting Fees and Getting Paid, Expert Fees, Medical Reporting Organisations, 02. Working with Agencies or Panels, 06. Rules and Regulations In considering whether the claimant should be required to provide a breakdown of expert and medical agency fees, the judge decided to offer the claimant the option of either providing the breakdown of expert and medical reporting organisation fees, to enable an assessment of work of both the expert and the MRO, or not providing that information and having the expert fees assessed on the hypothetical basis that there was no medical reporting organisation involved.
14 October News Advice on Expert Fees after CXR v Dome Holdings 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, 03. Setting Fees and Getting Paid, 02. Working with Agencies or Panels, 06. Rules and Regulations Many expert witnesses, primarily in medico-legal work, use a third-party organisation to help them in their practice. If you use an organisation which invoices the instructing solicitor for your services, you should be aware of legal developments which might affect the information that organisation needs to provide, in order to recover their bill as part of the legal costs recovered at the end of the case.
8 August Case Updates Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust v Hoskin (Manchester County Court, unreported, 22 May 2023) Expert's fees, Medical Reporting Agencies, 03. Setting Fees and Getting Paid, 02. Working with Agencies or Panels “Experts fees”