Excellence in Report Writing - Written Evidence Reviews

This course was designed for a mix group of people but the content was useful to all even as a refresher to more seasoned clinicians. A good reminder of the focus of reports and also how to prepare for cross examination and questioning which could be translated into any forum. Technical difficulties were no fault of Solon but did make it more difficult and something for us to reflect on with limited financial resources.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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