MEDICO-LEGAL EXPERT SECRETARIES SKILLS COURSE
OVERVIEW
- What is medico-legal reporting?
- What is the expert required to do?
- Who may instruct them?
- Who cannot?
- Panels and practitioners
- Who is the expert’s duty to?
- What rules apply – in crime, civil law, and family law?
- What about Coroners’ courts?
- What about Scotland, Northern Ireland and elsewhere?
- What should the expert have by way of a CV?
- What should the expert have by way of T&Cs?
- What should the expert be able to do for conflict checking?
- What acknowledgments should be sent?
- What sort of reports are there?
- What about a screening report?
- What about a desktop report?
- Liability and causation
- Condition and prognosis
- Fitness to plead
- What will the instructions say?
- What will a panel do?
- Fixing examinations – in person
- Fixing examination – online
- Who needs to attend?
- What checks need to be made?
- Photographing the claimant?
- What does capacity mean – is it the same as Gillick?
- What format should the report follow?
- Fonts spacing and side numbers
- Italics and footnotes
- Headers and footers
- What needs to go in?
- Common errors and omissions?
- What about references and literature?
- What about medical records?
- How should these be obtained?
- Can I approach the hospital?
- What part of them goes into a report?
- How should the expert refer to people?
- Who must sign it?
- What do the declarations means
- How should my expert deal with requests for changes?
- How should my expert deal with typos or minor errors?
- How should my expert respond to challenges?
- What about questions?
- Who pays for these – and when?
- What about experts joint meetings?
- What is hot tubbing?
- What about going to court?
- Filling or vacating the diary?
- Cancellations and postponements
- No shows and other issues
- What can an expert bill?
- When can an expert bill?
- What about when the expert is not paid?
- What about GDPR?
- How long should records and reports be kept?
- What are the FAQs?
The course is online but supported by key materials to be downloaded or sent directly to you as a password-protected file.