Excellence in Report Writing - Written Evidence Reviews

Thank you very much for today, I enjoyed this and learnt a lot. It would have been good to have examined and assessed a report prepared by an expert witness for the purposes of court. We had some reports to look over but they were not prepared for court. While a lot of learning could take place, there was possibly some missed learning. I appreciate that there is the issue of confidentiality, but there could be ways around this so that this is not compromised.

I thought this was overall a very good training session which helped me in understanding what would be required of me as an expert witness (something I am completely new to). There were a few technical glitches and delays, where I would suggest approaching delegates prior to the course to request to submit an advance any prior anonymised reports that could then be incorporated into the training pack/allocations to ultimately streamline that element, as the scenarios were very helpful.

Good course

Really useful! Hugely practical tips

The only reason I did not put 5/5 overall was because my focus is SEND tribunal and this was not an area covered by today's course (I thought it was). I did find the guidance for that during the day, however, and most of the content was applicable. Thank you for some excellent and enjoyable training.

I would have liked a part of the course to have looked at the use of objective vs subjective language. I suspect some of this would be covered in the cross-examination course, but I think it would have been useful to have a section about this here.

On line so inevitably compared to classroom I did last time. Some limitations since less easy to chat get to know people a bit But still a good course especially for novices

Thank you

Very good. Would recommend

Would have been better for the course to provide examples of case reports - this could have saved some time in delegating groups to look through each case. however the exercise within itself was great - to be able to see the report in the eyes of the judge.