Surveyors acting as expert witnesses [electronic resource] RICS professional statement and guidance note, Scotland
Surveyors acting as expert witnesses RICS professional statement and guidance note, Scotland [electronic resource]
- 1st
- London RICS 2015
- 40 p.
- RICS Practice Statement RICS Guidance Note .
Surveyors acting as expert witnesses: professional statement: RICS professional statements -- preamble -- Principal message -- application of professional statement -- duty in providing expert witness -- acting as an expert witness and instructions -- inspections -- reports and oral evidence -- amending the contents of written reports -- agreeing facts and resolving differences -- Single Joint Expert (SJE)/Court Appointed Expert(CAE) -- advocacy and expert witness roles -- conditional fees Surveyors acting as expert witnesses: guidance note: RICS guidance notes -- application of guidance note and introduction -- general duties -- advice and disclosure -- duties to the tribunal -- instructions and inspections -- evidence of fact -- expert (opinion) evidence -- questions to expert witnesses and answers -- documents -- oral evidence -- advising advocates -- expert witnesses' written reports -- form and content of an expert witness's written report -- meetings between the expert witness and the client's team -- narrowing differences and meetings between experts -- expert evidence, advocacy and a 'dual role' -- basis of charging fees -- conditional fees -- responsibility for expert witness's fees -- immunity of the expert witness -- criminal proceedings Appendices: sample terms of engagement -- immunity of the expert witness - exemptions -- definitions -- Further reading and glossary of Acts, procedures and protocols
Applies to surveyors when providing expert evidence, whether oral or written, before a range of courts and tribunals in Scotland. This practice statement is also published in the form of an accompanying client guide, a copy of which can be supplied by the expert witness to the prospective client however the client guide does not specifically extend to Scotland. Effective from 6th November 2015.
Advanced
9781783210992
Scotland
347.41067 $2 18
Surveyors acting as expert witnesses: professional statement: RICS professional statements -- preamble -- Principal message -- application of professional statement -- duty in providing expert witness -- acting as an expert witness and instructions -- inspections -- reports and oral evidence -- amending the contents of written reports -- agreeing facts and resolving differences -- Single Joint Expert (SJE)/Court Appointed Expert(CAE) -- advocacy and expert witness roles -- conditional fees Surveyors acting as expert witnesses: guidance note: RICS guidance notes -- application of guidance note and introduction -- general duties -- advice and disclosure -- duties to the tribunal -- instructions and inspections -- evidence of fact -- expert (opinion) evidence -- questions to expert witnesses and answers -- documents -- oral evidence -- advising advocates -- expert witnesses' written reports -- form and content of an expert witness's written report -- meetings between the expert witness and the client's team -- narrowing differences and meetings between experts -- expert evidence, advocacy and a 'dual role' -- basis of charging fees -- conditional fees -- responsibility for expert witness's fees -- immunity of the expert witness -- criminal proceedings Appendices: sample terms of engagement -- immunity of the expert witness - exemptions -- definitions -- Further reading and glossary of Acts, procedures and protocols
Applies to surveyors when providing expert evidence, whether oral or written, before a range of courts and tribunals in Scotland. This practice statement is also published in the form of an accompanying client guide, a copy of which can be supplied by the expert witness to the prospective client however the client guide does not specifically extend to Scotland. Effective from 6th November 2015.
Advanced
9781783210992
Scotland
347.41067 $2 18