Svend offers trained and accredited expert witness expertise on equine orthopaedics and surgery. His increasing involvement in this field is a reflection of the Courts increasing needs following the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) (1998) to identify expert witnesses who are competent (qualifications and seniority) in their own sphere and have received legal training to improve their credibility and reliability to give expert evidence.

Broad professional background

• Ten years in academia and orthopaedic research
  Doctorate thesis in orthopaedics
• Thirty years as orthopaedic consultant in equine practice (ongoing)
• Extensive literary production in peer-reviewed journals and textbooks
• Frequent speaker at national and international meetings

Legal training

• Cardiff University Expert Witness Accreditation (2006) (CUEW)
• Assessed and registered with Council for the Registration of Expert Witnesses (2005) (CRFP)
• Registered with UK Register of Expert Witnesses
• Assessed and Registered with Expert Witness Institute (EWI)
• Attending annual expert witness conferences and other legal CPD

Expert witness expertise

• Produced more than 400 expert witness reports for both claimants and defendants
• Single joint expert experience
• Magistrates, County and High Court experience in the UK, Ireland, Sweden & Denmark
• Frequently acting for The Danish Veterinary Health Council

Available for instruction in the UK and Europe.