Law Friends stalwart Raphael returns with another essential toolkit for practitioners, delving into the area of utilising experts. Raphael’s main interest is strategic litigation: working in partnership with solicitors to identify new legal points, training caseworkers to spot them, and advising early in order to test the issues on appeal. The aim is to build cases with overwhelmingly strong evidence, and develop arguments to test and change the law.

In this essential presentation, he looks at evidence gathering and then goes through all the steps needed for success as well as outlining the golden rules for witness statements.

Key topics and law: 

Reviewing country guidance 

Making a case plan

Documentary and witness evidence

Procedure rules and exceptions

Qualification

Briefing

Browne v Dunn (1893) 6 R. 67 (HL)

R (Maheshwaran) v SSHD [2002] EWCA Civ 173 [2004] Imm AR 176

Griffiths v TUI UK Ltd [2023] UKSC 48; 3 WLR 1024

Griffiths at §70 per Hodge, L