Tim Vogel BSc ACA

Tim qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young in Southampton in 1995 after gaining a maths degree. In the final level exams he finished in the top ten in the region. At that time, working predominantly in insolvency and business recovery, he gained valuable exposure to the commercial realities of business, as well as a sound grounding in business planning and forecasting.
Moving to High Wycombe, he joined the specialist forensic accounting unit of a "Group A firm", spending the majority of his time on personal injury, clinical negligence and smaller commercial claims. He had responsibility for the conflicts and professional acceptance register of the forensic side of the firm, and was heavily involved in the specialist training programme of the department.
In 1998, Tim returned to his roots in Norfolk, to a full time forensic accounting role with KPMG, providing a dedicated forensic accounting service to the whole of East Anglia. This increased his exposure to larger commercial cases and to criminal engagements.
Upon the sale of the office, Tim moved to the largest specialist forensic accounting unit in the region at one of the major regional firms. There he continued to develop his range of work, in particular gaining experience in Single Joint Expert appointments.
In January 2001, Tim left the unit to found his own accounting practice specialising in forensic accounting, and The Chamber of Experts.
In addition to his accounting practice, Tim provides a range of training courses for solicitors and other professionals. These are as external courses, through third parties or as in-house courses.
Tim has written "Practical Business Valuations", and is the editor of Forensic Group News, the specialist newsletter for Chartered Accountants, He has written and contributed to many articles in the accountancy and legal press in several fields within Forensic Accountancy. Publications include "Quantum", "Personal Injury and Medical Law Letter", "Journal of Personal Injury" and "Accountancy". He has experience of lecturing to small groups of solicitors and accountants on various subjects, and providing support services within various sized accountancy firms.
He sits on the committee of the appropriate Special Interest group and the Business Law committee within the ICAEW, and took a lead role in their response to the Lord Chancellor’s consultation paper on damages, and also on the writing of a number of the ICAEW's help-sheets for those in forensic practice.
He is also a non-executive director of Orbit Housing association, a large national housing association. Before that, he was a director of the Financial Services Compensation Scheme, a critical part of the country’s financial service industry.
Finally, Tim finds time to sit as a magistrate in West Norfolk, and acts in expert determination cases.
Forensic experience includes:
Personal Injury claims relating to:
Claimants and defendants
Self-employed and employed individuals
Complex remuneration packages
Loss of Pension claims
New business start ups
New business mitigation claims

Commercial disputes:
Partnership Disputes
Loss of profits
Local authority disputes
Breach of contract
Business interruption
Insurance claims quantification

Clinical Negligence claims:
Preparation of schedules of loss
Structures Settlement reports

Employment Disputes:
Loss of earnings calculations
Breach of contract
Loss of Pension

Criminal actions:
Acting for prosecution and defence
Theft
Small fraud
Misrepresentation
False accounting
Review of accounts

Matrimonial Disputes:
Both husbands’ and wives’ claims
Business valuations
Borrowing ability reports

Exert determinations, assisted negotiations, and mediations.
Tim Vogel has extensive experience of working with claimants, defendants and as a Single joint expert. In recent years, the proportion of instructions in civil cases has been approximately 50:30:20, although in a number of claimant appointed cases, Tim has subsequently been accepted as the single expert by the defendant.
Business research
One of the crucial parts of any forensic assignment is gathering the appropriate facts. Tim has access to a large range of sources of information. Through contacts in many libraries and government statistical offices, Tim can obtain access to traditional information covering areas from populations data for use in assessing retail outlets claims, to national trends in numbers of new houses completed for use in a claim by a door manufacturer.
The Internet provides a wealth of information, but the difficulty is often in finding it. Experience enables the quick retrieval of items as varied as the price of scrap tin through to the density of competing restaurants. Some of the points recently investigated include:
• Average house prices, nationally and locally.
• Cost of office space in various towns
• Population of specific electoral wards over a ten year period
• Percentage of occupiers of flats owning a car, and their bus usage.
• Numbers of differing classes of working people with a pension scheme
• New Earning Survey data (current and historical)
• Newspaper circulation figures
• National pay rates in many civil service and military roles
• Cigarette seizures trends and hot spots.
This support to your claim is essential, even if you are not using an expert’s report. In this way, you have a firm foundation for the quantum of any claim, which can be supported by documents in any negotiation or litigation, but without all of the costs of an expert’s report.

Telephone: 01760 725880

Fax: 01760 724855

Address: DX 31767 Swaffham

Email: timvogel@the-chamber-of-experts.co.uk