Here's today's Law Times column on the topic : (the thing I find most interesting is a BC lawyer appears to be more engaged in the Ontario new rules as they apply to Ontario assessments/experts than do our own (OTLA) plaintiff lawyers who appear to be sleeping - again.
Speaker's Corner: U.K. shows way forward on expert accountability
Monday, August 22, 2011 | Written by Dr. Michael Ford According to a recent Law Times story, Canadian lawyers are split over a British ruling that abolished the rule granting expert witnesses immunity from lawsuits (see “U.K. ruling spurs debate on expert immunity,” April 18).
On a different note - as I recall,this is a topic you visited a while back.
Time to have judges preside over inquests?
Monday, August 22, 2011 | Written by Ravi Amamath Concerns over two recent inquests in Ontario are prompting calls to have legal professionals, rather than doctors, preside over the proceedings.
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Any thoughts on this story about dubious medicolegal experts who make big bucks selling favourable assessments/testimony to auto insurers?
Alan Shanoff August 20, 2011
Put auto insurers under microscope
Being injured in a car accident isn’t something to which anyone looks forward.
Unfortunately it has a long history!
Here's today's Law Times column on the topic : (the thing I find most interesting is a BC lawyer appears to be more engaged in the Ontario new rules as they apply to Ontario assessments/experts than do our own (OTLA) plaintiff lawyers who appear to be sleeping - again.
Speaker's Corner: U.K. shows way forward on expert accountability
Monday, August 22, 2011 | Written by Dr. Michael Ford
According to a recent Law Times story, Canadian lawyers are split over a British ruling that abolished the rule granting expert witnesses immunity from lawsuits (see “U.K. ruling spurs debate on expert immunity,” April 18).
On a different note - as I recall,this is a topic you visited a while back.
Time to have judges preside over inquests?
Monday, August 22, 2011 | Written by Ravi Amamath
Concerns over two recent inquests in Ontario are prompting calls to have legal professionals, rather than doctors, preside over the proceedings.
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