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Giving Evidence

Practise factual recall and clear, accurate testimony faithful to what you know.

01 / The approach

Healthcare professionals may need to explain clinical decisions and records to a non-medical audience. Questioning, elapsed time, and uncertainty call for precision, composure, and the ability to separate facts, memory, and inference.

Conversational avatars let participants rehearse questions and answers in short, repeatable sessions. The substance of testimony is not shaped to secure an outcome: the aim is to communicate it with integrity.

02 / How it works

01

Reconstruct

Review the timeline, available records, and the limits of your knowledge; distinguish direct observation from interpretation.

02

Answer questions

Interact with avatars representing a coroner, counsel, or other counterparts as the scenario requires. Practise clarity and composure under pressure.

03

Review feedback

A rubric examines clarity, accuracy, reasoning, tone, structure, and empathy. Repeat to improve delivery without changing the facts.

03 / What to observe


Accuracy and separation of facts from inference

Clarity for non-medical audiences

Structure and reasoning in answers

Tone, composure, and empathy

04 / A concrete example

The Coroner’s Court simulation

The documented case prepares healthcare professionals for a coroner’s inquest in England. Ten to fifteen minute sessions with avatars and feedback can run on a desktop or in an immersive courtroom. With jurisdiction-specific legal design, the method can be adapted to civil and criminal cases and other death inquiries: fatal accident inquiries before a sheriff in Scotland; inquests in Victoria, Australia; and, where provided, procedures such as those in Wisconsin, USA.

 

05 / How to tailor it

Audience, jurisdiction, type of proceeding, witness role, and case records must be defined with clinical and legal experts. Simulation is training; it does not replace legal advice on a particular case.