UNLIKE the changeover to digital TV, you do have a choice whether to convert to digital dictation. If you don’t, however, what you regard as quaint eccentricity is likely to ensure that you attract the epithets ‘dinosaur’ and ‘Luddite’ and possibly worse.
There really is no reason for delaying a change to digital dictation. It is inexpensive, easy to install and the training time required is minimal.
EXPERTS HAVE been in the news recently, with high-profile cases where the competence and independence of experts has been brought into question. How can we, as solicitors, ensure that the experts we use are competent?
Historically, experts were not trained in how to be an expert witness.
SINCE MAY 1998, when the Housing Grants Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 came into force, adjudicators and judges have been tirelessly unravelling its complexities.
They arose from the novelty of the processes, some poor parliamentary draughtsmanship, and not forgetting the ingenuity of people determined to avoid payment.
WHY DO YOU need an expert planning witness when everyone has such strongly held views on planning matters?
I seriously regret the day I told my local barber that I was a town planner. Not a cut has gone by since without him telling me about the ills of the local oneway system or his mate’s neighbour’s extension which “should never have been allowed”. Isn’t it all pretty obvious whether something looks too big or too ugly?
THERE IS evidence that the way to defend the UK’s global position in engineering consultancy is to provide a quality of service and speed of response that reflect our national education and character.
Manderstam International Group, established in 1941, provides independent bespoke engineering and economic development services worldwide. The company has provided process and industrial engineering in specialised technologies in over 90 countries, and has a significant track record in providing expert witness services approved by the UK Law Society.
