TAE offers a comprehensive range of training programmes for Expert Witnesses and Mediators. This enables both TAE members and others to keep up to date, develop their  skills, and undertake Continuous Professional Development activity.

Courses range from basic Role and Responsibilities of the Expert and report writing skills through to the requirements of Procedure Rules and the practice of Giving Evidence.

The Academy of Experts’ (“TAE”) training approach can be characterised as:

• Interactive
• Multi-disciplinary

All TAE training is:

• Professional
• Ethical
• Standards Based

Our courses are all highly interactive and are generally taught in small groups with strong delegate participation being a key factor in their success.

Most of our UK based public training courses take place online and in person. We also run regular courses in person in Hong Kong covering the Asia Pacific region – see here for further details.

For course dates and prices please see our training calendar.

Why undertake training?

Expert Witnesses in the public and private sector are coming under increasing pressure: clients expect more, the media’s watchful eye finds more to reveal. Newspapers, professional journals and news programmes appear to find the exploits of Experts to be irresistible. Increasingly judicial comment and individual criticism by judges is drawing an unwelcome spotlight onto the Expert. As well as having appropriate qualifications and experience in your professional field, it has long been considered vital that all experts undertake recognised Expert Witness Training.

New constraints and standards with which Experts have to comply are appearing in many jurisdictions and more are promised. Being an Expert Witness requires more than just being an Expert. Expertise is essential but learning how to use it in the legal arena is extremely important.

Academy Training strikes the right balance and helps both the experienced expert and the newcomer to learn how to ‘do it right’ in private before going into the public glare of the courtroom.

Experienced solicitors will make an assessment of an expert’s knowledge. This may occur at any stage of the process, being most likely during the assessment leading to appointment and by Counsel during a trial. Experts who are well prepared are more likely to win work, and more likely to survive with their reputation intact.