Expert Matters - The Podcast

“How not to prepare an expert report”

“What is parental alienation?”

“When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir” (John Maynard Keynes)

“Fundamental dishonesty”

“Engineering opinion on loss of consciousness”

“Aim for magnetic north in capacity cases”

“Mind your language and avoid pre-judging the claimant”

“The importance of the medical records”

“Going weak at the knees - allegedly negligent delayed diagnosis and treatment of a thoracic disc prolapse”

“A negligent failure to perform a costotransversectomy?” The detail of this judgment will be of interest to neurosurgeons and spinal surgeons. However, particularly as the judgment quotes C v North Cumbria University Hospitals Trust [2014] Med. L.R. 189 which gives meaning to the adjectives ‘responsible’, ‘competent’ and ‘respectable’ in Bolitho, this is a useful judgment to have to hand when preparing a report in a case of alleged clinical negligence.