Price: £345.00 +VAT

3rd and subsequent delegates half price!

Quantity

09.30 Registration and coffee

10.00 Chair’s Introduction

• Introduction of the case study
• Explanation of the day’s proceedings

10.10 The First Stages of the Case

• Child protection investigations
• Before proceedings begin
  • letters
  • preparation of local authority proceedings
  • pre-proceedings assessment
• Issuing proceedings
• Working with the PLO
• Pre-proceedings checklist: disclosure of medical records, police records, minutes of strategy meetings, child protection conferences, education records
• Interim removal cases

10.40 Coffee

10.55 Preparing for the First Appointment and Case Management Conference

• Identifying Directions and critical points affecting the court timetable
• Expert evidence and residential assessments: what are you likely to need and what will you resist?
• Choice
  • who gets to choose - you, your opponent(s) or the court?
  • identifying the type of expert required
  • evaluating and securing the best available candidate
• Payment: identifying and securing funding
• Timetable points: contested interim hearings, fact-finding, child’s timetable, panels, placement orders
• Effective negotiation techniques
• Which court?

11.25 Breakout Session: Advocacy at the First Appointment and Case Management Conference

• Considering the parties’ positions
• Determining the Directions the client requires
• Staying within PLO compliant timescales

11.55 The First Appointment and the Case Management Conference

• You will remain in groups and assume allocated roles, choosing one of the issues identified to then make submissions.

12.30 The First Stages of the Case

• Preparation
• Questions for examination-in-chief and cross-examination
• Skeleton arguments and bundles
• Complying with Practice Directions
• Preparing your client
• Structuring closing speeches
• Effective use of case law
• Compliance with the PLO

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Examination-in-Chief of Medical and Psychiatric Experts: Techniques, Tips and Traps

• Use
  • when and why to instruct experts
  • understanding when expert instruction is not suitable
• Choice
  • who gets to choose: you, your opponent(s) or the court?
  • identifying the type of expert required
  • evaluating and securing the best available candidate 
• Payment
  • identifying and securing funding
• Roles and responsibilities
  • who should do what
  • staying in control, instructions, interrogatories and meetings
• Examination
  • in chief
  • cross-examination
  • witness control

14.30 Examples of Good and Bad Examination-in-Chief and Cross-Examination of two Medical Experts by the Speakers

14.45 Breakout Session: Examination-in-Chief of Medical Experts: Group Work 

• Preparing questions for the experts with a view to putting forward your case
• Questioning styles and question structure
• Considering and evaluating the cross-examination and re-examination of the expert

15.30 Tea

15.45 Breakout Session: Cross Examining Psychiatric Experts: Group Work

• You will cross-examine an expert based on case study provided.

16.45 The Final Hearing

• Submissions to consider

17.00 Judgment and Close of Seminar

Course Leaders
4, Brick Court Chambers

Continuing Professional Development

Under the Solicitors Regulation Authority and ILEX’s Continuing Professional Development Schemes, this conference will receive a credit of 5 hours 30 minutes.

Bar Standards Board's New/Established Practitioner Programmes

Under the Bar Standards Board’s New and Established Practitioner Programmes this conference will receive a credit of 5 hours 30 minutes.

Enquiries
Jordan Publishing Limited,
Conference Department,
21 St Thomas Street,
Bristol
BS1 6JS
Tel: 0117 918 1490
Fax 0117 925 0486
DX 78161 Bristol

Fee
All fees are inclusive of refreshments, lunch and course documentation. Cheques payable to Jordan Publishing Limited.

Discounted Registration Fee
Organisations registering 2 or more delegates at the same time are entitled to send a second delegate at 20% discount and third and subsequent delegates at half price.

Booking Terms
If you book online you may enter your credit card details, or ask to be invoiced. All invoices for these seminars must be paid within 30 days of the invoice date. Registering your details on the booking form will constitute a booking. Telephone bookings are only accepted if paid by credit card. All other bookings must be confirmed in writing.

Seminar Venue
Crowne Plaza Manchester
Shudehill
MANCHESTER
M4 4AF

Delegates wishing to change the venue initially booked more than once will be charged an administration fee of £20.00 plus VAT for each transfer.

Acknowledgement of Bookings
Full details of the venue, including a map, will be sent via email two weeks prior to the course. If you have not received acknowledgement of your registration one week before the course, please telephone our Conference Department on 0117 918 1490 to confirm that your registration has been received.

Registration on the Day
The course starts promptly at 10.00am. Registration will take place in the preceding half hour.

Telephone Bookings
Telephone bookings are only accepted if paid by credit card. All other bookings must be confirmed in writing.

Substitute Delegates
If you are unable to attend, a substitute may attend in your place. It would be helpful if you would inform us of any changes as soon as possible.

Cancellation and Refunds
A credit against the registration fee payable (less an administration fee of £50.00 plus VAT) can only be made in respect of written cancellations received by Jordan Publishing in Bristol at least 10 days before the seminar. The full registration fee plus VAT is payable on cancellations received less than 10 days before the seminar.

Please note:
It may be necessary for reasons beyond the control of Jordan Publishing to change the content and/or timings of the programme and/or speakers.