Our Expert Witness service provides medico-legal reports for both quantum and liability to claimant and defendant solicitor and insurers.
Established over 35 years ago, our expert witness service is made up of over 70 clinical professionals across the UK, giving you confidence that we can find you the perfect match for your expert witness quantum and liability reports.
Our expert witness reports are written by experienced and credible associate expert witnesses who deliver objective opinion and high quality reports that regularly exceed expectations. They work clinically in a number of professions including nursing and midwifery, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy and are experienced in catastrophic injury including Acquired Brain Injury, Spinal Cord Injury, Amputation, birth injury and complex Orthopaedic injuries.
Liability Expert Witness Reports
Our liability reports cover:
- Breach of Duty
- Causation
- Fitness to Practice
Quantum Expert Witness Reports
Our quantum witness reports can either be in the form of a:
- Full quantum report
- Short form quantum report
depending on your need, court requirements and value of the case.
They include Care, Care/OT, Loss of Service, OT, Wrongful birth and Assistive Technology, with 16 report types in total.
Expert witness assessments
Expert witness assessments can be undertaken in person, via video call or over the telephone, depending upon the circumstances of the case and the preference of the instructing party and the claimant.
Where face-to-face assessment is not available, we offer video conferencing through whichever programme your client is comfortable with and follow up with a comprehensive report; with the option for a face-to-face assessment once it is appropriate to do so. If your client does not have access to technology we can provide secure tablets for assessment.
Continuous Professional Development
We pride ourselves in making training and guidance available to all associate expert witnesses who work with Bush & Co. This ensures our UK-wide network of associates is fully compliant with their duty as experts to the instructing parties and to the Court and remain up to date on industry trends and changes.
Our training includes topics to ensure our associate expert witnesses comply with law and the applicable procedures that apply to their work, how to write court compliant reports, giving oral evidence and professional conduct.
Quality Assurance (QA)
To uphold our reputation for providing exceptional reports, all pieces of written work undertaken by our associate expert witnesses must pass through a robust quality assurance process to guarantee that they are Court compliant and to ensure that they accurately respond to the instructions provided by the referring parties.
This process is managed by a dedicated Quality Assurance team, led by a lawyer and supported by associate expert witnesses and our Reports Production team ensuring that the expert witnesses’ opinion remains unchanged or influenced.
Throughout Bush & Co we operate a ‘Chinese Walls’ system to remove any conflict of interest and ensures no associate expert witness has access to details of the other side of the case. This extends to head office staff who cannot proof read or QA check an opposing side of the case.
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Many thanks Jane for all your work on this case and for so robustly defending your position. I am most grateful and I am sure the client and her family feel the same
Richard Coleman, Royds Withy King -
Alison was very accessible and approachable and her reports were of high quality. She performed very well during conferences with counsel and was well prepared, holding her ground where necessary. She was also amenable to amendments where needed. We achieved a settlement of £6m on this case and the majority of damages rested on the care evidence and outcome of the joint discussions and joint report. I would definitely instruct Alison again.
Toni Knott, Irwin Mitchell -
Penny was incredibly helpful – stepping into the breach at the last minute on this case. We had tight deadlines, she was quick to respond and always available for discussions at short notice.
Sarah Towler, Russell Cooke
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We have over 100 expert witnesses across the UK
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23 years’ average experience in clinical profession
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97% overall satisfaction rate
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You can contact us at enquiries@bushco.co.uk or call our expert witness service on 01327 876210. You can also enquiry directly to any one of our associate expert witnesses at bushco.co.uk/search
We offer liability reports that cover Breach of Duty, fitness to Practice and Causation. We also offer 16 quantum report types delivered as a full report, short form report or mid-range report.