Chapter 3 – Training, Development and the Maintenance of Expertise
Abstract In AWLP, the GMC states: ‘You should consider undertaking training for the role (of expert witness)’. This does not go far enough. You must be trained: Chapter 3 Training,…
Chapter 2 – Courts, Laws and Procedures
Abstract There is a world of difference between an agricultural land tribunal (ALT) held in the bar of a country hotel and an Old Bailey murder trial. The ALT panel…
Chapter 1 – The Expert Medical Witness
Abstract At least since 1282, when a coroner called a surgeon to advise whether an arrow injury to the chest could be fatal (Sayles 1936), doctors have been needed to…
