7 February News Working on a ‘no win – no fee’ basis Expert Fees, Contingency Fee Professor Keith Rix discusses whether experts can accept instructions on the basis of mirroring the solicitors’ ‘no win – no fee’ agreement in personal injury compensation claims. This item appeared in the February edition of Expert Healthcare Witness Matters, a monthly email newsletter written by Professor Rix.
31 January Case Updates JXX v Scott Archibald [2025] EWHC 69 (SCCO) 06. Rules and Regulations, 03. Setting Fees and Getting Paid, Expert Fees, Medical Reporting Organisations, 02. Working with Agencies or Panels 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.
23 September News Quarterly Update on EWI's Advocacy Work forensic science regulator, Civil Procedure Rule Committee, 06. Rules and Regulations, Transparency and Open Justice Board, Legal Aid, Expert Fees, Advocacy, Health Care Professions Council, Housing Condition Strategy Group, Scottish Justice Council One of the key roles of the Expert Witness Institute is to ensure that policy, rule and regulatory changes are informed by the experience of our members and the needs of the expert witness community and the wider justice system. In this update, we discuss our work in this area over the last 3 months.
16 September Podcast Podcast Episode 4: Expert Fees 06. Rules and Regulations, 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, 03. Setting Fees and Getting Paid, Legal Aid, Expert Fees Simon and Sean discuss expert fees and catch up with Dominic Woodhouse from Partners in Costs to talk about cost management and budgeting in civil proceedings.