Clinical experience is a starting point. What actually holds up in court is something many instructing solicitors overlook until it is too late.
By Dr Anup Singh | Bond Solon Certified GP Expert Witness | England and Wales Most solicitors start their search the same way. They look for a GP with strong clinical experience. They check how long the doctor has been practising. They might look at NHS background or relevant specialist training. These things matter. But they are not enough on their own. The problem is that being a good doctor and being a good expert witness are two entirely different skills. A GP who has spent thirty years seeing patients may have no formal understanding of CPR Part 35. They may not know how to structure a report so that breach of duty and causation are addressed separately. They may write in clinical language that a judge simply cannot follow. And when opposing counsel tests their reasoning under cross examination the gaps begin to show. This is not a rare situation. It happens across clinical negligence cases in England and Wales more often than the legal pr...