Intended use
What Expert Witness QA is for, what it can help with, and what it does not do.
Expert Witness QA is an AI-assisted quality-assurance tool for medicolegal expert reports. It is designed to help expert witnesses and, where appropriate, instructing legal teams review draft reports for completeness, internal consistency, coverage of solicitor instructions, clarity, redaction status and apparent structural issues before the report is finalised.
The platform works by comparing a draft expert report with the relevant letter of instruction and generating a structured QA review. The output may include an overall QA status, a solicitor-instruction coverage table, potential inconsistencies, missing or incomplete answers, possible caveats for expert review, and a final action checklist.
The system is assistive only. It does not form medical opinions, legal opinions, causation conclusions, prognosis conclusions, liability assessments or standard-of-care assessments. It does not decide whether a report should be served or relied upon. The expert remains solely responsible for the report, including all opinions, reasoning, wording, literature relied upon, factual accuracy and compliance with their duty to the court.
Current status
This platform is currently in prototype and controlled testing. It should be used only with anonymised, synthetic or appropriately authorised material unless suitable governance, contractual and data-protection arrangements are in place.
What the tool can help with
- comparing a solicitor’s questions with the draft report;
- identifying questions that appear addressed, partly addressed or not addressed;
- flagging possible left/right, date, name, diagnosis or body-part inconsistencies;
- identifying apparent gaps in future treatment, costing, work-capacity or care/equipment sections;
- highlighting areas where caveats or source-checking may be needed;
- producing a redaction audit;
- providing a structured QA checklist for the expert to consider.
What the tool does not do
- does not provide medical advice or treatment recommendations;
- does not determine causation, prognosis, liability or breach of duty;
- does not assess credibility;
- does not replace the expert’s own review of records, imaging, literature or instructions;
- does not provide legal advice;
- does not certify court compliance;
- does not write, rewrite or approve the expert’s substantive opinion.