Courtroom Skills for Expert Witnesses Reviews

The role play is great and I do recommend it. However, it would be better to know who you are going to be, perhaps the day before, so that you can prepare for your role play. In a real situation you would at least know who you are - it is very difficult to role play on the hoof when you are not that person and do not thoroughly know your witness statement. So not sure why we weren't given that opportunity... Other than that the course was great :)

It was a really good session, I couldn't recommend it more.

Very helpful guidance on dos and don'ts of being a witness, protocol, housekeeping, styles of questions and scope of responses.

Very useful and interesting training.

karen is an excellent trainer with a wealth of knowledge. The course shows the importance of an full and accurate statement and the need for thorough preparation.

This course was very interesting, particularly the section where we carried out a mock cross-examination. Simon Jelf did not hold back and provided very constructive, critical feedback.

Cross examination exercises started with an introduction of the case by the 'witness', to set the stage for the other participants and the trainer as well I guess. This is good, but the actual start of the cross examining exercise was not always clearly distinguished from the introduction. In most exercises, including my own, I found this a bit confusing and, for my own exercise, made it difficult to get myself in the correct position (attitude) timely. I think it would be better to indicate "now the introduction ends and the exercise starts".

The training was brilliant, brutal (in a kind way) in showing us our weaknesses, which is exactly what we need to be prepared for a courtroom

Outstanding course.

Very good course indeed, well presented and very relevant. I feel it has given me greater understanding and confidence