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06 December 2013
Issue: 7587 / Categories: Features , Expert Witness
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The effort required when creating lists of expert witnesses and appraisers, and recruiting experts with appropriate background and experience, remains one of the most time- and labour-consuming components in the professional life of law office employees and businesses operating in the legal industry. The CEBiR (Central Register of Expert Witnesses) database, available 24/7 online, makes the process of expert recruitment easier and gives the experts themselves access to numerous potential clients.

CEBiR is the first industry-focused portal listing expert witnesses, appraisers and experts from all over Europe. It is a constantly updated source of contact data for experts with particular skills or specialist knowledge in a selected scientific area. The database allows expert witnesses, appraisers, forensic experts, sworn translators and interpreters, mediators, lawyers, attorneys at law, notaries public, and legal counsellors to promote their services. Moreover, it serves as a source of current contact data for institutions, research centres, companies, and law offices. CEBiR offers immediate access to a database offering more than 100,000 records and a database browsing option based on

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NEWS
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The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has launched a recruitment drive for talented early career and more senior barristers and solicitors
Regulators differed in the clarity and consistency of their post-Mazur advice and guidance, according to an interim report by the Legal Services Board (LSB)
The dangers of uncritical artificial intelligence (AI) use in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. In this week's NLJ, Dr Charanjit Singh of Holborn Chambers examines cases where lawyers relied on ‘hallucinated’ citations — entirely fictitious authorities generated by AI tools
The Solicitors Act 1974 may still underpin legal regulation, but its age is increasingly showing. Writing in NLJ this week, Victoria Morrison-Hughes of the Association of Costs Lawyers argues that the Act is ‘out of step with modern consumer law’ and actively deters fairness
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