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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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