Speakers
John Cock
Architect
Architect, Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator, Accredited Adjudicator and Accredited Expert Determiner
Speaker Details
John Cock
Architect
Architect, Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator, Accredited Adjudicator and Accredited Expert Determiner
John Cock is an architect, designer and project manager, with over 40 years’ experience across Asia and Australia. He advises employers, consultants, contractors and their legal advisers in expert evidence in arbitration and court proceedings in matters relating to building defects, design and architectural professional practice and project delivery.
A Chartered Arbitrator, Accredited Mediator, Accredited Adjudicator and Accredited Expert Determiner, he also acts as a third party resolver of commercial and construction disputes.
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A good Expert report must be clear, independent, properly structured and useful to the court, tribunal or decision-maker.
This course covers both the theory and practice of Expert report writing, with a focus on compliance, structure, professional standards, language and clarity.
Topics include:
- What the Expert needs to know and do prior to writing the Report
- What Counsel expects from the Expert’s Report
- What your instructing solicitor fears about Expert’s Reports
- Errors and traps in the use of plain English
- Evaluating Experts’ Reports
- Introduction to The Judicial Committee’s Model Form of Expert Report
WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
This course has been designed for those wishing to become Experts and is also a valuable ‘refresher’ for the experienced Expert including:
- Practising Expert Witnesses
- Professionals beginning to undertake Expert Witness work
- Senior professionals who may be asked to give Expert evidence
- Lawyers and others who instruct Experts
- Experts who want a structured refresher
- Professionals working in litigation, arbitration, adjudication and other dispute processes
