Are you a medic interested in becoming an expert witness? Expert witness work can be a fulfilling and enriching role for highly trained medics and provides opportunities for professional development, promoting patient safety and ensuring high standards of care are maintained within the NHS and private sector.
Lawyers and experts work together, combining law and medicine, to have a positive impact on the lives of people who have suffered life changing injuries.
This seminar is designed to provide you with the information you need to get started as an expert witness. During the session we'll cover:
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- The legal test and the law behind medico-legal work
- How you can become an expert witness and at what stage in your career
- The role and responsibilities of an expert witness
- How to write a medico-legal report and an expert’s responsibility to the Court.
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We'll hear from lawyers and experienced expert witnesses who specialise in all aspects of personal injury work with breakout sessions tailored to the type of expert witness work you're considering including medical negligence, serious injury and industrial disease.Â
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We hope you can join us.Â
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Sarah is a Partner in the serious injury team at Irwin Mitchell. Sarah specialises in complex cases involving life changing injuries and has a particular expertise in neurotrauma; bringing claims for both adults and children who have suffered a brain injury.
She is accredited as a brain injury specialist by the APIL injury Accreditation Scheme and has close links with Headway having been appointed as a Trustee of Headway East London in 2013.
Sarah is also a committee member for the Acquired Brain Injury Forum for London (ABIL) and is keen to raise awareness of acquired brain injury across London and the UK.
Sarah is passionate about rehabilitation and has extensive experience of securing early interim payments so that she can put rehabilitation in place for her clients to ensure that their rehabilitation can start as soon as possible.