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Guidance for expert witnesses and injury law firms on medical evidence, reporting and compliance.

Scales of justice on a desk
Medico-legal practice · · 4 min read

Part 35 and the expert's duty to the court: a practical refresher

Under Part 35 of the Civil Procedure Rules, an expert's overriding duty is to the court, not to the party paying them. That duty shapes the independence of the opinion, the mandatory statements in the report, and the obligation to flag where the evidence is incomplete or your view has a range.

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Medico-legal practice · · 3 min read

ALLDOQ sponsors Ireland's Expert Witness Conference 2026

ALLDOQ is a sponsor of Ireland's Expert Witness Conference 2026, held on 20 May at the Radisson Blu Royal in Dublin. The day brings judges, barristers, solicitors and expert witnesses together to examine the standards behind credible expert evidence, from methodology and independence to AI and cross-examination.

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A pen resting on a dated diary page
Medico-legal practice · · 6 min read

How to build a medical chronology that stands up in court

A medical chronology turns thousands of pages of records into a single ordered account of what happened and when. Build it well, with every entry tied to its source page, and it becomes the backbone of a defensible report. Build it badly and it is the first thing the other side takes apart.

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Hand writing dated notes on paper while building a case chronology
Medico-legal practice · · 6 min read

How to build a medical chronology for a medico-legal case

A medical chronology is a dated, sourced timeline of every clinical event in a case. Built well, it turns thousands of disordered pages into one reliable spine the whole claim runs along. The test is simple: every entry carries the document and page it came from, so anyone can check it.

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