SKELETON ARGUMENTS: BE SUCCINCT AND TO THE POINT: "THE ISSUE WAS ALL BUT LOST IN THE PLETHORA OF PAPER": COURT OF APPEAL FIRES WARNING SHOT

SKELETON ARGUMENTS: BE SUCCINCT AND TO THE POINT: “THE ISSUE WAS ALL BUT LOST IN THE PLETHORA OF PAPER”: COURT OF APPEAL FIRES WARNING SHOT

January 4, 2019 · by · in Appeals, Applications, Civil Procedure, Members Content, Written advocacy

 Now that Lord Justice Jackson has retired someone needs to take his place to provide the (more or less quarterly) reminder to practitioners to keep skeleton arguments short and to the point.   Step in Lord Justice Hickinbottom in Harverye v The…

EXPERT WITNESS INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY: HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE "BOMBASTIC BULLSHITTER"? A CHECKLIST TO ENSURE EXPERT IMPARTIALITY

EXPERT WITNESS INDEPENDENCE AND IMPARTIALITY: HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH THE “BOMBASTIC BULLSHITTER”? A CHECKLIST TO ENSURE EXPERT IMPARTIALITY

January 4, 2019 · by · in Expert evidence, Experts, Members Content

I am grateful to Professor Penny Cooper for sending me a copy of the report she authored with Dr Michelle Mattison for the Expert Witness Institute – “Towards Expert Witness Independence and Impartiality”.  This post is just a snapshot, to…