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

The Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand, London
Medico-legal practice · · 5 min read

Can an expert witness use AI? Part 35, responsibility and disclosure

Yes. An expert witness can use AI for the reading: extracting facts, building a chronology and finding entries across a medico-legal bundle. The opinion must remain the expert's own, every AI-produced fact must be verified against its source page, and the Part 35 duty to the court is untouched by the tooling.

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Medico-legal practice · · 5 min read

How to write an expert witness report: a structure-first guide under Part 35

How to write an expert witness report comes down to a structure the court can follow and check. Lead with the opinion, work through the material and the reasoning, state the limitations plainly, and close with the statements Part 35 requires. This guide gives you the section-by-section shape, a template you can adapt, and the mandatory wording.

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Medico-legal practice · · 6 min read

Proportionate transparency for AI in expert evidence: what the courts are asking

The courts are drawing attention to how AI is used in expert and witness evidence: the Court of Appeal in R v FGD, the CJC's review and the BSB's guidance all land on the same idea, that AI use should be transparent to a proportionate degree. For an expert witness that means being able to say what a tool did, what the expert checked, and what stayed the expert's own judgement.

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Tall stacks of bundled paper case files on an office desk
Medico-legal practice · · 5 min read

Missing medical records: what an expert should do when the disclosure has gaps

The bundle is almost never complete. A referral with no clinic letter, a test with no result, three weeks of an admission with no notes: gaps like these are routine, and how an expert handles them decides whether the opinion holds. Name the gap and reason around it openly and the report is stronger for it. Work around it in silence and it becomes the thread the other side pulls.

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An open notebook and pen on a desk before a meeting
Medico-legal practice · · 6 min read

Preparing for the experts' joint statement: a Part 35 checklist

The joint statement is where two experts agree what they agree on and pin down exactly where they part. Walk into the discussion with the records in order and your reasoning already on the page, and the meeting sharpens the case. Walk in unprepared and it is where a sound opinion quietly comes apart.

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Clinician reviewing records on a laptop, stethoscope on the desk
Medico-legal practice · · 5 min read

AI for medical record review: where it helps and where judgement stays

AI medical record review uses language models to read a medico-legal bundle, GP records, hospital notes, imaging and correspondence, and return an indexed chronology, typed fact tables and summaries with a source page attached to every fact. Used well, it turns days of reading into hours. Used badly, it produces confident answers no one can check. The line between the two is the source page.

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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 thick stack of paper records indexed with coloured tabs
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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