12 February Case Updates McLaren Indy LLC & Anor v Alpa Racing USA LLC & Ors [2026] EWHC 110 (Comm) 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, 16. Criticism and Complaints, CV, CV Writing, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing, 14. Changing your opinion, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements, 15. Giving Oral Evidence, Motorsport The claimant alleged that the second defendant, a Spanish racing driver, had repudiated a binding agreement under which he was contracted to drive for the claimants’ IndyCar team for the 2024, 2025 and 2026 racing seasons. The judge found some of the expert witnesses to be impressive and independent, while the expert evidence of others was unimpressive and disappointing.
11 September Case Updates Ceto Shipping Corporation v Savory Shipping Inc [2025] EWHC 2033 (Comm) 16. Criticism and Complaints, CV Writing, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements The claimant asserted that the defendant was required to transfer title in a vessel at the expiry of the bareboat counterparty between them. The judge noted that the claimant’s witness on insurance broking had essentially no experience in the matter for expert evidence and his views appeared to be based on conversations with unidentified others, rather than his own experience of testable research.
20 February Case Updates Kohler Mira Limited v Norcros Group (Holdings) Limited [2024] EWHC 3247 (Ch) Patent Law, 01. Starting your Expert Witness Business, 16. Criticism and Complaints, Prior Art, CV Writing, 11. Report Writing, 14. Changing your opinion, 15. Giving Oral Evidence The judge preferred the evidence of the Claimant's expert because of the Defendant's expert’s approach to his task as expert, his confusion over the proper approach to what prior art was and was not in the common general knowledge, the number of assertions he made which he was forced to resile from as incorrect, and his failure to acknowledge a key fact.