29 April Case Updates Previous criticism used to highlight defects in expert evidence 16. Criticism and Complaints, 17. Maintaining your professional edge, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits The case of Maina Kumari Rai v Advantage Insurance Company Limited (T/A Hastings Insurance) [2026] EWHC 784 (KB) provides a good reminder that previous criticism can be brought up to discredit your expert evidence.
22 April Case Updates When can you challenge an Expert Determination? The outcome of an Expert Determination is final and binding. However, there are circumstances in which the outcome can be appealed. The case of GSY Hospitality Limited v Gladstone Court Developments Limited Neutral Citation Number[2025] EWHC 3231 (TCC) sets out these circumstances.
7 April Case Updates Expert evidence in a vacuum of facts and startling use of Smart Glasses by the claimant 07. Receiving Instructions, 09. Being instructed as a Single Joint Expert, 16. Criticism and Complaints In straying from their original instructions, the expert developed an opinion without all the facts of the case and the second claimant was being coached through his cross-examination using smart glasses. UAB Business Enterprise & Anor v Oneta Limited & Ors Neutral Citation Number[2026] EWHC 543 (Ch)
18 April Case Updates DSN v Blackpool Football Club Limited [2020] EWHC 595 (QB), 2020 WL 01234791 Historic, Child abuse, Limitation, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Historical child abuse Topic: Limitation
1 March Case Updates Dempsey v Government of the United States of America [2020] EWHC 603 (Admin), 2020 WL 01235532 Criminal, Extradition case, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits Relevance: Criminal Topic: Extradition
1 March Case Updates Roddis v The Queen [2020] EWCA Crim 396, 2020 WL 01250413 Admissibility, Autistic spectrum disorder, Evidence on appeal, 06. Rules and Regulations Relevance: Crime Topic: Autistic spectrum disorder and mens rea Admissibility of evidence on appeal
1 March Case Updates Leafrealm Land Limited v The City of Edinburgh Council [2020] CSOH 34, 2020 WL 01290090 Oral testimoney, Report drafting, Surveying, Methodology, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence Relevance: General Surveying Topic: Methodology Report drafting Independence Oral testimony
1 March Case Updates A Clinical Commissioning Group v AF [2020] EWCOP 16, 2020 WL 01494079 Capacity cases, Best interest, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing “Avoiding a macabre experiment” Relevance: Capacity cases Topics: Best interests
1 March Case Updates FXF v Ampleforth Abbey Trustees [2020] EWHC 791 (QB), 2020 WL 01663316 Historic, Child abuse, Limitation, Causation, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing “The Savile effect” Relevance: Historic child abuse Topics: Limitation Causation
1 March Case Updates Walaszczyk v Regional Court of Law in Czestochowa, Poland [2020] EWHC 849 (Admin), 2020 WL 01695206 Extradition case, Mental disorder, Threshold level, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing Relevance: Extradition cases Topic: Threshold level of mental disorder necessary to prevent extradition