Engineers Ireland

Trainer

La Touche Training is a firm of Solicitors and Barristers who specialise in running training courses for engineers in legal and witness skills. As Irelands leading legal training provider, we have trained over 70,000 delegates since we were set up in 1995.
Our hands-on, interactive training courses are hugely popular with engineers working in both the public and private sector.
Our client list includes every local authority in the country, most government departments, many private firms and individual experts. The feedback to our range of public and In House programmes is consistently superb.

Course aim

Delegates will learn:

• How to identify the issues and the facts, and the source and weight of those facts
• Appropriate layout, format and style
• Expressing an opinion on the issues
• Pitching the language of the report at the right level
• Using written evidence as a tool to settle cases or as a basis for giving oral evidence
• Best practice standards in Note Taking, Statement Writing and Report Writing.
• Dealing with exhibits, photos, digital evidence and other graphics
• Developing an objective and critical eye in relation to your report writing

Overview

The interactive training day focuses on the Expert Witness Reports that engineers write for court.
This course assists delegates to understand what is required from reports. They will consider the content of reports by considering the source and weight of evidence to be included and learning to distinguish between facts, inference and opinion. They will also consider the style and format of reports by reference to a model format for reports. The samples and models can be adapted to suit the field and context that is required

Programme

The course is practical and interactive involving a mix of theory & interactive exercises. Delegates will learn about best practice standards to preparing Expert Witness Reports. They will also get detailed feedback on their own reports and receive a template for future reports.

Who should attend

Anyone who can potentially have to write a report that could be examined in court. We have trained engineers of all grades from new graduates to individuals with 45 years experience.

Trainer's profile

All of our training is conducted by our team of barristers and solicitors. All our trainers are qualified lawyers as well as trained trainers. All of our trainers are very experienced and are skilled with helping delegates to get the most out of each course.

Special requests

Delegates will be asked to submit one of their reports prior to the training. This will allow the trainer to review it prior to the training and give detailed feedback on the day.