A Guide to Drafting Noise Induced Hearing Loss Witness Statements for Claimant Lawyers

Introduction

Noise induced hearing loss remains one of the biggest areas of industrial disease and the witness statement is probably one of the most important aspects of running a successful claim. The witness statement will set out the claimants’ case in regards to liability, causation, limitation, and quantum.

This webinar will demonstrate how to write a well drafted witness statement which should encourage a defendant to make an offer of settlement; allow an acoustic engineer to provide a positive report; and present the Claimants’ case in the best light to a judge if the matter goes to trial.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• What the CPR demands of a witness statement
• Eliciting important information from the claimant to be able to draft a witness statement
• How to set out the skeleton of a witness statement
• Areas of the witness statement which are important to be focused on to encourage settlement, allow an acoustic engineer to provide a positive report and give the Claimant the best opportunity of settlement at trial

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Friday 25th July 2025

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