Demystifying Financial Expertise Taking instructions from solicitors for both claimants and defendants, and occasionally as a Single Joint Expert (SJE) or a court-appointed expert, I’ve honed my skill in delivering focused expert witness reports. The reality is that not everyone relishes the thought of delving into the details of finance, Read more…
I sometimes take it for granted, but first and foremost we are Chartered Accountants – that is what underlies our Expert Witness work on Loss Quantum and related financial matters surrounding disputes and litigation. So, whilst Formby Forensics provides forensic accountancy advice and opinion reports – that work is backed Read more…
At Formby Forensics, our expertise in personal injury cases often leads to clients seeking our valuable second opinions on Earnings Loss Quantum. In these instances we conduct a thorough initial review of the evidence and provide timely preliminary advice, which can be followed up with a comprehensive CPR Part 35 Read more…
As Forensic Accountants we deal a lot with Pension Loss quantum calculations for Personal Injury and Fatal Accident Dependency claims. The Pension Loss topic typically lends itself well to White Label schedule drafting – and so the Court’s permission to use a forensic accountant, as your agent, to prepare the Read more…
Claimants with limited companies I have already noted the recent change to the taxation of company profits but there are other personal injury loss quantum issues with companies to be aware of. Earnings losses for claimants that trade through their own limited company, will typically be focused on the lost Read more…
From Manuscript Ledgers to Digital Records When I started out, as a trainee-chartered accountant, I had my trusted Casio Calculator – we didn’t have computers and neither did the clients. Computers were a rarity and business records were recorded by hand. Back in the day, one came across the most Read more…
With a Personal Injury Earnings Loss claim where the claimant has an Ill-health Pension and is also able to continue working (and so has Actual Earnings) then be very careful how those Actual Earnings are calculated – there may be a significant impact on lost earnings. When a claimant has Read more…
Forensic accountancy expert evidence is a valuable litigation tool which, once deployed in the cost-conscious litigation arena, has to be carefully managed in order to achieve maximum impact at a proportionate cost. Good communication – guiding star Once a party has established breach and causation, quantum is everything, and so Read more…