Surgery
Endoscopy expert witnesses
Listed endoscopy expert witnesses address the performance, completeness and reporting of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy. Missed lesions and procedural perforation are the two questions most often put.
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The evidence
What an endoscopy expert witness is asked to determine
Endoscopy is unusually well documented: the request, bowel preparation quality, caecal intubation, withdrawal time, images and the report itself are all recorded. Where a lesion was missed, those measures usually determine whether the examination was adequate rather than whether the endoscopist was unlucky. Where the procedure was performed under sedation, the doses given and the recovery observations form a separate strand of the same record.
- Whether the procedure was indicated by the symptoms and the pathway in force.
- Whether preparation quality and completion were adequate for a reliable examination.
- Whether a lesion was visible and should have been identified or biopsied.
- Whether perforation or bleeding was recognised and managed without delay.
- Whether the surveillance interval set after the procedure was appropriate.
Practitioners are listed across the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. Location can be narrowed in the register’s location listings before an instruction is made.
Claim contexts
Claims that instruct this discipline
These links describe the question endoscopy evidence can answer. They do not prescribe the scope of an individual instruction.
Clinical negligence claims
Completeness, reporting and complication management at endoscopy.
View claim type → 02Personal injury claims
Injury sustained during an endoscopic procedure.
View claim type → 03Inquests
Endoscopy evidence where the circumstances of a death are examined.
View claim type →Search the register by the discipline used in the instruction.
See endoscopy listingsReport routes
Reports prepared
Procedure reports, images and quality measures support a records review report. A breach and causation report then addresses the outcome of any omission.
Where a delayed cancer diagnosis is alleged, oncology evidence is normally required as well. The report pages describe the scope of each route.
Endoscopy expert witness evidence
An endoscopist expert witness works from the recorded quality measures and images, not from the knowledge of what was found later.
The register publishes the listing; availability is confirmed with the practitioner. See guidance from Joint Advisory Group on GI Endoscopy alongside the case material.
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Endoscopy Expert Witness Cases & Claims
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Questions answered
Frequently asked questions
Will an Endoscopy expert witness respond to Part 35 questions?
Yes - CPR 35.6 entitles the parties to put written questions on a report, and answering them is part of the expert's duty to the court. A Endoscopy report prepared for proceedings in England and Wales carries the Part 35 statement of truth, with equivalent duties applying in the other UK jurisdictions.
Can an Endoscopy expert act as a single joint expert?
Where the court directs a single joint expert under CPR 35.7, the instruction is agreed between the parties and put jointly - a routine basis of instruction in this field. Whether a particular practitioner accepts SJE appointments is confirmed with the practitioner at the enquiry stage.
Will the expert attend joint discussions or give evidence at trial?
Where the court directs discussions between experts under CPR 35.12, they meet and produce a joint statement of what is agreed and what is disputed; attendance at trial - in person or by video link - is likewise a matter of court direction. These commitments are confirmed with the practitioner at instruction.
Can I choose an Endoscopy expert of a specific gender, or one who assesses remotely?
Yes on both counts. Every listing displays the practitioner's gender, consulting locations and assessment types - face to face, remote or both - so sensitive-instruction preferences can be applied at the shortlisting stage, before any contact is made.