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245 _aPrice of expert witnesses getting higher
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490 _aFinancial Times
_v 13 November 2000, 18(1)
520 _aOutlines 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.
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650 _aEXPERT WITNESSES
650 _aWOOLF REFORMS
650 _aFEES
650 _aCONDITIONAL FEES
690 _aMANAGEMENT-DISPUTE AVOIDANCE, MANAGEMENT AND RESOLUTION-DISPUTE MANAGEMENT AND RESOLUTION-EXPERT WITNESSES
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