EWI Annual Conference 2026: Opening keynote tackles the use of AI in Expert Reports EWI Annual Conference 2026: Opening keynote tackles the use of AI in Expert Reports

EWI Annual Conference 2026: Opening keynote tackles the use of AI in Expert Reports

“If an Expert, a lawyer, an accountant, an engineer, a doctor produce inaccurate or unreliable opinions or use hallucinatory references, they are...
Do not leave it until cross-examination to reveal your true opinion Do not leave it until cross-examination to reveal your true opinion

Do not leave it until cross-examination to reveal your true opinion

The Claimant suffered serious injuries in a road traffic accident after the Defendant, who was driving out of a side road, collided with the...
A Day in the Life of a General Practitioner Expert Witness A Day in the Life of a General Practitioner Expert Witness

A Day in the Life of a General Practitioner Expert Witness

Dr Frances Cranfield is a GP, Assistant Coroner, and a founding member of the Expert Witness Institute. With three decades of experience spanning...
New Guide to Becoming an Expert Witness New Guide to Becoming an Expert Witness

New Guide to Becoming an Expert Witness

The EWI has just published its new guide to Becoming and Expert Witness. Written by EWI Member Paul Beckett, the guide is aimed at those who are...
Ill-health and sentencing Ill-health and sentencing

Ill-health and sentencing

After summarising the case law, the court in this case stated that there is a high threshold to be reached in order for ill health or physical...
Take care not to conflate your role as a contractor with your duties as an expert witness Take care not to conflate your role as a contractor with your duties as an expert witness

Take care not to conflate your role as a contractor with your duties as an expert witness

The parties disagreed on the extent of the repairs required to the joists, and the manner in which the repairs should be effected, following the...
Podcast Episode 26: Expert Advisor versus Expert Witness Podcast Episode 26: Expert Advisor versus Expert Witness

Podcast Episode 26: Expert Advisor versus Expert Witness

This month, on the Expert Matters Podcast, we take a look at the issues and challenges of being an expert advisor versus an expert witness, and...
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Aerotoxic syndrome
Case Updates

Aerotoxic syndrome

Personal injury claims are being brought by approximately 220 pilots and cabin crew at the High Court in London on the grounds of aerotoxic syndrome (ATS). This group of claimants includes 51 claims which were issued by Thompsons in March 2019 involving pilots and cabin crew working for EasyJet, British Airways, Thomas Cook, Jet2 and Virgin Atlantic. These two claims are not included in these ongoing English collective proceedings. These were claims by two pilots who lost the chance of bringing successful claims as a result of the admitted negligence of a Scottish law practice.

Gough v Cannons Law Practice; Montague-Trenchard v Cannons Law Practice (Court of Session) [2025] CSOH 28 

Z v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust [2020] EWCOP 69
Case Updates

Z v University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust [2020] EWCOP 69

Relevance:      General

                        Neurology

 

Topics:            Records

                        Consent to examination

                        Substance of all material instructions

                        Qualified opinion