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Getting To the Truth: Nine Principles for Medico-Legal Practice  

30th June 2020
Benjamin Franklin stated that there were two absolute certainties in life: death and taxes. Actually, there is, in fact, a third absolute certainty and that is change. No matter what happens, life and its conditions will change. Nowhere is this more obvious than the accelerating rate of advances in science, and particularly in the field […]
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Company Valuations: What Is the Key to Making It Right?

30th June 2020
He shares with us the questions the company and its advisers should be asking themselves, in order to make the best decision for the long-term. Valuations in the restructuring market We are currently working on planning projects involving group reorganisations and ensuring that assets are only ever moved at fair value.  This is to protect […]
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 The Challenges Experts May Face When Undergoing Assessments from Home

30th June 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented challenge which has been the catalyst for the development of new modalities of delivering healthcare in order to maintain social distancing and minimising the potential spread of infection, especially in high risk specialities such as ophthalmology where there is close contact when the patient is examined. The Royal College […]
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How Digital Forensics Can Help Solve Legal Cases

29th May 2020
We speak to Chris Collier, a Senior Digital Forensics Analyst, who reveals more about the process of digital forensics and how his findings can benefit legal cases. How has digital forensics developed over the years and what importance does it play in legal cases now, in comparison to a decade ago, when the digital world […]
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Who Will Bear the Risk and Cost for Coronavirus Construction Delays?

29th May 2020
The terms of the contract will, of course, allocate the risk and cost of the Coronavirus. Although I have studied and have a keen interest in the law, I know where my expertise lies and, therefore, I stick to my specialist subject of delay rather than liability. To some degree, I think that the outfall […]
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Appointed Experts May Owe a Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty: The Ruling’s Impact

29th May 2020
In this case the claimant successfully continued an injunction restraining the defendant’s consultancy firms from acting as Expert Witnesses for another party in ICC proceedings against the claimant. Articles published elsewhere in the industry have questioned the impact that this might have for the larger global Expert Witness firms. First of all,  how is Diales […]
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Do Virtual Assessments Have a Role as an Alternative to Face to Face Assessments in Quantum Cases?

30th April 2020
 Rather than the whole assessment being postponed for an unknown timeframe, and in awareness that solicitors were informing us that they wished to continue to litigate cases, we considered the possibility of digital/ video-based assessments. To date, we have been very pleased with the assessments we have undertaken, although naturally they have only been happening […]
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