Scottish Case Law Update – July 2022 – National Expert Witness Agency

Scottish Case Law Update – July 2022

One of the topics explored by a recent panel of international experts at London International Disputes Week was the malleability (and thus fallibility) of human memory and the resultant impact on reliable witness evidence. Memories are not fixed but are fluid and malleable. As part of an organic supercomputer (the brain), each time they are ‘retrieved’…..

Old Bailey sentencing remarks broadcast on TV for first time

Delays in cases going through the civil court continued to rise in the first quarter of 2021, throwing a potentially huge spanner in the works

The Times and Bond Solon Expert Witness Survey 2022

Professor Tony Maden has been cleared in two investigations by the General Medical Council over fitness to practice relating to complaints submitted by non-recent child sexual abuse claimants.

Solicitors could escalate legal aid action next week

Justice minister Lord David Wolfson has promised an urgent review of the decision to move the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) to the gov.uk website in a far less user-friendly format.The CPR have long been available on the Ministry of Justice’s old justice.gov.uk website, along with the other procedure rules, as well as certain courts and probation guidance, including daily court lists…..