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.