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Expert Opinion Evidence (Testimony)
- Presenting counsel and others with issues including causation arising in personal injury or death from: violence by others with wounding; vehicle and aircraft crashes; work, equipment, sports and recreation accidents; the effect of environment including climate (e.g., hypothermia) and toxic substances.
- Working with experts to understand mechanical force and resolving those affecting vehicle and aircraft occupants (e.g. relating a crash to occupant movement and vehicle deformation).
- Medical malpractice (plaintiff or defendant): reviewing hospital records; consultants, laboratory and diagnostic imaging and other reports; interpreting and assessing procedures and standards; defining substantive issues; suggesting and locating consultants with special expertise.
- Conducting sound background research with particular attention to current literature and practice; briefing counsel on procedures and devices; providing alternatives and probabilities about cause; preparing counsel to consider a course of action and assisting prediction of outcome.
- Interpreting counsel’s issues to locate and to brief others, including medical experts.
- Management and assessment of mortuary services in Canada and the United States.
- Coordinating with government agencies and other specialized services following a disaster.
- Providing appropriate & compassionate liaison with families regarding circumstances, cause of death and identification of loved ones.
- Representing government, transport carrier(s) or families to interpret and assist with local procedures or consular protocol.
- Enabling timely and compassionate repatriation of the dead from overseas to home.
- Representing investigative agencies to assess pathology or to assist in delivery of mortuary services during investigation of a man-made disaster, for example: air crash.
Family and Next of Kin Liaison
Dr. Butt’s history of work in disaster situations has given him a unique insight into the challenges facing the family and next of kin of disaster and other victims. His work in this area falls into two categories:
- Compassionate treatment of family and next of kin in disasters, including management of their concerns (e.g., identification, repatriation of remains, documentation)
- Interpretation of reports made by hospitals, coroners and medical examiners, answering questions that arise out of them.
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