The Expert Witness Institute offers a two part report writing course. These are an integral part of our Core Training for experts.
Provides the fundamental skills needed to write high-quality expert reports.
The framework of Court rules and procedure that form the context for expert reports will be explained, as will the basic evidential writing skills necessary to produce reports that fulfill all the requirements of the litigation process.
Outline
- Court requirements for expert reports
- Statement of truth
- Report types
- Timing of the expert instruction and its implications for report content
- Analysing the letter of instruction to ensure report meets the brief
- Report structures / templates
- Opinion writing
- Efficiency, proportionality and profitability through report writing
- Common mistakes in report writing
CPD Hours: 7 hours
Forthcoming Dates
Beyond the Basics: Advanced Report Writing for Experts
This course explores all the latest developments in expert witness report writing and provides advice and tools to enhance your report writing skills.
Building on the fundamentals of the Basics of Report Writing, you will learn techniques and strategies that will enable you to deliver more impactful evidence across increasingly complex issues.
Outline
- Understand the latest updates to court procedures and rules as they apply to reports
- Explore the fundamental categories of legal test and understand its importance in evidence
- Understand the thought process for applying legal tests correctly using simple and complex factual and technical scenarios
- Understand how to generate a list of issues prior to the production of the report
- Develop and enhance opinion writing skills for complex cases, such as causation, damage and quantum
- Understand how to deal with causation in multi-incident compensation claims
- Understand how to deal with the range of professional opinion on issues in dispute
- Learn approaches for dealing with reporting situations involving technical or complex issues
Why should you attend?
- Receive specialist tuition on a vital area of expert witness practice
- Learn techniques that help to identify and highlight the key issues
- Learn how to present each stage of the opinion in a logical and ordered way
- Understand when and how to seek guidance from instructing lawyers
- Learn grammatical and presentational strategies that improve quality of evidence
CPD Hours: 7 Hours
Forthcoming Dates