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22 September 2023 / Rakesh Kapila
Issue: 8041 / Categories: Features , Profession , Expert Witness
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Expert witnesses: joining forces

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Rakesh Kapila provides a handy guide to forensic accountants’ interaction with other experts
  • Gives examples of how experts work together on various cases including divorce, personal injury, and property.
  • Shares best practice.

Expert accountants are not always instructed in isolation. Often, our role is to liaise with other experts and this is true for many different types of cases, from commercial disputes to personal injury claims, matrimonial cases, employment disputes and fraud cases. Certain types of expert will inform the assumptions on which other experts are appointed to provide their own input, for example, a medical expert may provide evidence on which a claimant’s loss of earnings computation in a personal injury case will be based. Other experts may provide factual input such as valuations of types of business property or background to a specific business sector.

This article provides examples of experts in other disciplines with whom we have worked in a variety of cases.

Other financial experts

We have frequently worked in conjunction with VAT experts in relation to the VAT aspects of complex frauds. It was important

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