Course Details

Expert witnesses provide professional opinion evidence on matters beyond the expertise of judges or tribunals.


When dispute escalate to court, Tribunal or arbitration, their insights can help clarify complex technical issues.


The skills required of expert witnesses have become far more wide-ranging, and experts are required to be competent in a wide range of other skills other than just being a technical expert. And their communication skills will often need to cover both written and verbal.


Expert’s today must be fully conversant with, and comply with, increasingly intricate legal and procedural formalities that have become attached to the role


In this webinar Juan Carlos Venegas will cover the following topics:

  • What is an Expert Witness?
  • Duties of an Expert: Rules and Regulations 
  • What to avoid: failures based on Court cases
  • Single Joint Expert: Best Practice and Pitfalls to avoid
  • Expert’s Discussions and Joint Statements
  • Expert Report and oral evidence
  • Changing your opinion


By attending this session, you will:

  • Carry out your duties as an Expert
  • Avoid pitfalls and failures when instructed
  • Master your oral evidence as per your Report
  • Improve your Expert’s skills 

 

This session will be of most interest to:

  • Accountants 
  • Tax professionals/Tax Advisers
  • Insolvency practitioners
  • Finance professionals
  • Bookkeepers
  • Students who wish to gain an insight into a specialist area


Course level: Foundation / Intermediate

CPD Course Speaker

FA Forensics Ltd

Juan Carlos Venegas

Juan Carlos Venegas FAIA is a fellow of the Association of International Accountants and a member of the Expert Witness Institute. He plays an active role in several professional organisations, serving on the Executive Committee and as Treasurer of the Private Prosecutors’ Association and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Midlands Fraud Forum. He also serves on CIOT/ATT Joint Professional Standards Committee.

Juan Carlos is the director of FA Forensics Ltd. He is a public accountant, forensic accountant and UK/Spanish tax advisor. He is a course writer and provides training both within the UK and internationally. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

He delivers forensic accounting services focused on fraud prevention and detection, fraud investigation, litigation support, financial disputes and preparation of expert reports.

And he has also trained the Financial Audit Department of Dubai and the State Audit Institution of Oman in Forensic Audit.