Join us for the last podcast of 2025! With some festive cheer, we review 2025, with the ten key issues for expert witnesses that we've seen over the course of the year.
We discuss:
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Scrutiny of experts increases and more calls for regulation
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Make sure you tell your instructing party of any loss of professional memberships
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Getting your cv right
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Make sure you pay attention to the rules and regulations
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AI - pitfalls and opportunities
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Informing instructing parties of previous criticism
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Increasing importance of ADR
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Transparency and open justice
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Responsibilities for retirement
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Don’t suggest they should google it
We also check out how our predictions for the 10 things to look out for in 2025 turned out, before having another go for 2026, and finishing with the 2025 highlights of some of the members of our Editorial Committee.
You can listen to Episode 20 of the Expert Matters Podcast on a number of podcast apps, including spotify and apple podcasts. If you can't find the podcast on your favourite app, let us know at expertmatters@ewi.org.uk.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:13 Ten key Issues for 2025
16:58 Opening up those predictions
19:30 What to look out for in 2026
21:03 EWI Editorial Committee highlights from 2025
29:54 Newsreel
32:12 Conclusion
The resources, cases and constultation we discussed in this episode are:
CV Writing Toolkit
Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry - Report, Volume 1
Expert Matters Podcast 11: AI and the Expert Witness
Expert Matters Podcast 19: Transparency and Open Justice
Webinar on the Access to Public Domain Documents Pilot (Free to Members)
How should Experts disclose criticisms
EWI Conference 2025: The Rise and Relevance of ADR
Guidance on ADR
Guidance on Approaching Retirement
Fixed Recoverable Costs Stocktake Consultation
Family Justice Council: Expert Committee Schwartz Round
GKE v Gunning [2023] EWHC 332 (KB)
Dusko Knezevic v The Government of the Republic of Montenegro [2024] EWHC 761 (Admin)
JSC Commercial Bank Privatbank v Igor Valeryevich Kolomoisky & Ors [2025] EWHC 1987 (Ch)
COLDUNELL LIMITED v HOTEL MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL LIMITED [2022] EWHC 1290 (TCC)