Part 2 - Giving Evidence - Witness Familiarisation Reviews

Alister Turtle was a very engaging presenter who held my attention throughout the training session. He was always receptive to any questions either I or the group had. My understanding of the court system and how to clearly and confidently give my evidence as a court witness has been widened and emboldened. I shall recommend the Bond Solon Witness Familiarisation training to internal and external colleagues alike, as a valuable learning tool to apply and ready oneself when attending Magistrates / High / Crown courts and First Tier Tribunal hearings. Thank you!

Really interactive course and Alister was an excellent facilitator. The case studies and examples were very relevant and Alister was very knowledgeable. My attention was kept throughout the day and time flew by!

The roleplay was challenging, but done in a supportive environment where we were all made to feel comfortable and successful regardless of how the questioning lines went. I was very impressed with the knowledge of Alister and that he managed to pull different learning experiences and themes from each person's cross-examination. The content about the courtroom was also useful and learning points like the ball and brick wall analogy were very helpful to consider moving forward.

Alister is an archetypical professional in law. All those I spoke with after the course said how Alister's presentation style was confident, knowledgeable and enthusiastic. He was very receptive to questions, encouraging attendees to engage and ask more! Attendees suggested they'd never been to such a well presented, interesting and engaging course, where they found it so useful for applying to their work. The slide content and explanations were very high quality and the role play court cross examinations were extremely helpful for practice and building experience. Thank you Alister, we will most certainly be using Bond Solon again. Highly recommended.

Kelly guided and supported the group excellently, explained aspects well giving practical examples and pointers to make the most of the potential difficult experience of having to give evidence in court.

Really enjoyed this course especially the exercise as there is no way to get training for cross examination so this was brilliant.

A really interesting interactive piece of training, that fulfilled my training objectives. Trainer was very professional and delivery was excellent.

Geraint is an interesting person which made it easy to pay attention. There was a slight lack in structure with no PP etc. However, this is not neccessarily a negative point as most training is now deemed as 'death by PP' .Geraint was able to create a relaxed environment with audience participation, which made it helpful to retain the information. A summary at the end of training would have been great with reflection on the questions that were asked but I'm aware that time was not on our side due to starting the training late, which was no fault of Geraints. I look forward to the next session and hope that the training is offered to the wider workforce is due course.

First-class training from Kelly, our trainer, who demystified the subject and provided the knowledge, behaviours and skills required to act as a confident professional witness at court. Thank you so much for sharing your expertise!

Kelly was a brilliant trainer across the two days - great energy, engaging and really took the time to apply the learning to the various roles of those attending the course. I enjoyed the cross examining exercise at the end - excellent practice and good opportunity to observe in how to deal with difficult scenarios.