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The Anatomy of a Defensible Expert Report
How to build expert evidence that survives written questions, joint statements and cross-examination.
What separates an expert report that survives scrutiny from one that collapses under cross-examination.
What is inside
- What 'defensible' actually means
- The duty that frames everything (CPR Part 35, the Ikarian Reefer)
- The mandatory anatomy under Part 35
- Methodology you can show, not just assert
- Handling the range of opinion and disagreement
- Independence and the partisan trap
- Why reports collapse: a failure-mode checklist
- A pre-finalisation checklist
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