Personal Injury Update - Expert Evidence to Fundamental Dishonesty

Introduction

This course - aimed at Claimant personal injury practitioners - will provide essential updates on a variety of topics relevant to intermediate track and multi-track personal injury cases in particular.

What You Will Learn

This course will cover the following:

• Expert evidence
• Getting the most from your experts
• How to approach difficulties with your expert evidence: when to stick and when to twist
• Recent problems with expert evidence at trial…and how to avoid them
• Loss of earnings
• Summary of recent cases
• The various approaches to a future loss of earnings claim and identifying the right one for your case
• Care and assistance
• A reminder of the basic principles
• The position after Muyep, Scarcliffe and CCC
• How to assess, plead and prove your care claim
• Fundamental dishonesty
• Where are we now? The latest cases on what is - and isn’t - fundamental dishonesty
• Guidance from the High Court on what constitutes ‘Substantial Injustice’ for the purposes of S57(2)
• The dishonest Defendant - an equal playing field?