Not only will we explore the process of giving evidence as an expert witness in Court, but we'll also provide an unique insight into how the role of Multidisciplinary Teams impact upon the legal process. We'll look closely at the process of obtaining interim payments and the important role Multidisciplinary Teams play in this process.
Featuring a guest performance from the renowned Care expert and Case Manager, Ms Maggie Sargent, and leading Neurorehabilitation Consultant, Dr Liz Iveson. The session will be chaired by barristers from Old Square Chambers in London, who will provide expert guidance on the following topics:
- How expert evidence is likely to be approached by the Court in high value personal injury litigation
Interim Payment applications
The importance of Multidisciplinary Teams
The potential outcomes of good and bad evidence
Things to watch out for when giving evidence both at Court and in written form.
The session will be relevant to current Part 35 expert witnesses of all fields as well as those interested in becoming a Part 35 expert witness in addition to professionals who regularly make up Multidisciplinary and medical clinicians who lead them.
At the end of the mock hearing, we’ll open the floor to questions and there’ll be an opportunity to speak to the panel. We’d be delighted if you could join us afterwards for light refreshments and drinks.
We anticipate this will be a popular event, so be sure to RSVP to secure your place.
We hope you can join us.
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Dr Liz Iveson is an experienced Consultant Stroke and Neurorehabilitation Physician with a background in Elderly and General Medicine. Her interests and expertise are in stroke and neurological rehabilitation and has much experience in the management of complex pain, including the use of medical cannabis. Dr Iveson has a particular interest in the longer term management of complex patients with multiple needs and symptoms such as pain, spasticity, fatigue, sleep, cognitive and mood disorders and reviewing polypharmacy. She is passionate about good communication and delivers this in a holistic, pragmatic and multi-disciplinary team led way.
Dr Iveson has worked within the NHS for over 25 years, and has more recently started her own business, Lives on Medical Consultancy and Education Ltd. The company which works in the private sector provides comprehensive assessments and clinical oversight of patients with complex presentations, particularly following Traumatic Brain Injury and Stroke. She enjoys working with clients, their families and MDTs in the Community as a Treating clinician and inpatients at STEPS Rehabilitation as well as providing a spasticity service from the Nuffield York.
In 2017 Maggie was recognised at the Legal Awards receiving both a Lifetime Achievement Award for her services to the legal profession and Medico Legal Provider of The Year.
Maggie is a Co-Director of Community Case Management Services Ltd (CCMS), a specialist and leading provider of case management for rehabilitation of severely injured adults and children throughout the United Kingdom, Europe, and Worldwide. Maggie is also the Responsible Individual for Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW).
Maggie was on the steering committee that established the British Association of Brain Injury Case Managers (BABICM). She is on the Council and is an advanced member of BABICM and she was a director on the board of CMS(UK) from 2002 to 2004.
Maggie is a published author and in 2004 wrote a paper at The European Brain Injury Symposium at the Vatican on caring for clients in the community with PVS and has published other papers on costs of care in the community. She is the specialist contributor author on the chapter on Expert Care and Case Management in the APIL Guide to Catastrophic Injury Claims .
As a recognised leading case manager she is frequently invited to speak at National and International events. In September 2008 she was an invited speaker on case management at the 'Fifth World Congress for Neuro-Rehabilitation’ in Rio de Janeiro and also addressed the PEOPIL Conference, which took place in Malta in June 2009. Maggie was invited to The International Brain Injury Association World Congress in New Orleans in March 2017, the largest international conference on the subject of brain injury, and in September 2017 was Honorary Chair at BIT’s 4th Annual World Congress of Orthopaedics in China. In February 2018 Maggie presented a paper at the 10th World Congress for Neuro-Rehabilitation in Mumbai. In 2023 she presented at the CCMS conference in Westminster and in March 2024 will be presenting at the North American Brain Injury Assessment Centre.
Driven by a passion to ensure that those with catastrophic and complex injuries are given the opportunity to live their lives to the full, in 1997 Maggie established a local nursing service for the community funded by charitable donations, which provides nursing care within a patient’s home. In 2011 she established the Oxford and Bristol Groups of The Silverlining Charity providing social opportunities and challenges for clients with brain injury, which has a client group of 50 service users at present.
Recent events have included adults and children with complex catastrophic injuries skiing in La Plagne, taking a South African Safari and volunteering in a special needs orphanage, and surfing in Cornwall. The trips have demonstrated the huge rehabilitation benefits of holidays for individual and their family effected by catastrophic injury and are now annual events true to the CCMS motto that Life's for Living!
Charlie is recognised as one of the leading personal injury silks at the Bar. He is ranked by both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500 and is ranked in both London Bar and on the Western Circuit. Whilst legal directories record that Charlie’s “advocacy is superb, and he has the ability to hold the attention of the court. His cross-examination of experts is robust, fair and effective.”
Most of Charlie’s caseload involves high-value, complex or catastrophic injury and fatal accident claims including brain injury, spinal cord injury and amputation. Charlie’s vast experience of dealing with medical and non-medical experts makes him particularly popular in contested quantum cases or cases in which there are significant disputes as to medical causation.
Bruno is a ranked junior barrister in personal injury, in both Chambers & Partners and The Legal 500. He has a busy litigation practice, regularly appearing in the High Court and County Court. The directories state, “Bruno is meticulous in his preparation, confident in his advice and a compelling advocate in court with an excellent success rate” and he has been described as the “weapon of choice for complex personal injury and clinical negligence claims”.
He is instructed in high-value Multi-track claims, often involving multiple parties and complex issues of liability and causation. Bruno has particular experience with military claims, sports claims, and spinal injury claims.