To be a credible expert witness, not only must you have expertise in your clinical and/or practice area but you must also have specific training in the expert report writing process and the Civil and/or Criminal Procedure Rules. Once you have decided you are ready to do this area of work, you should identify what your areas of expertise is, and what type of reports you want to write. Undertake some relevant training. Join a professional network to network with similar peers. You might want to start out by working within a larger medicolegal practice to undertake supervised report writing. Keep yourself current by doing annual CPD in medicolegal field. As you do more work you will build your networks and make contacts.
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