Price of expert witnesses getting higher
Price of expert witnesses getting higher
- 2000
- Financial Times 13 November 2000, 18(1) .
Outlines discussion at the annual expert witness conference . The Woolf reforms are cutting the number of trials, but this is counterbalanced by experts doing more work early on to allow the option of early settlement. In 1999 Bond Solon's survey of expert witnesses revealed 14% charged more than £150 an hour, compared with 8% in 1997.
EXPERT WITNESSES
WOOLF REFORMS
FEES
CONDITIONAL FEES
Outlines discussion at the annual expert witness conference . The Woolf reforms are cutting the number of trials, but this is counterbalanced by experts doing more work early on to allow the option of early settlement. In 1999 Bond Solon's survey of expert witnesses revealed 14% charged more than £150 an hour, compared with 8% in 1997.
EXPERT WITNESSES
WOOLF REFORMS
FEES
CONDITIONAL FEES