AVOIDING PITFALLS WITH WITNESS STATEMENTS – HOW TO DRAFT AN EFFECTIVE WITNESS STATEMENT: WEBINAR 26th FEBRUARY 2025
Judges regularly complain that witness statements are inadequate and do not contain sufficient information, alternatively that they contain much information that is irrelevant and the witness is unable to give. This webinar is designed to help practitioners avoid the major problem areas with witness statements. Booking details are available here.
“Too often (indeed far too often) witnesses who have had statements prepared for them by solicitors tell the Judge that matters in the statement are not correct; they say (all too believably) that they simply signed what the solicitor had drafted for them without reading it through carefully and critically. This reflects badly not only on the witness, but on the whole case presented by the party calling the witness.”
THE CONTENTS OF THE WEBINAR
This webinar looks at:
- The mandatory requirements for witness statements and the consequences of non-compliance
- Protecting the witness from the lawyer
- Protecting the lawyer from the witness
- Witness statements and proportionality
- Where lawyers go badly wrong with witness evidence
- Explaining the significance of the statement of truth.
- A checklist for taking a statement