24 August 2021 Wiebke Morgan 2709 Case Updates Beattie Passive Norse Limited v Canham Consulting Limited [2021] EWHC 1116 (TCC) by Wiebke Morgan The case: a claim in professional negligence brought against a practice of consulting engineers. Evidence: The judge had to choose between the expert evidence of two structural engineers. He preferred the evidence of Mr X in all respects where that differed from the evidence of Mr Y. This was for the following reasons: To continue reading you must be an EWI member, become a member and access exclusive content. Already a member? Login Share Print Tags BiasIndependenceLanguageObjectivity16. Criticism and Complaints11. Report Writing15. Giving Oral Evidence Related articles X and Y (Care Proceedings: Fact Finding: Death of a Child: Expert Evidence), Re [2025] EWFC 132 Diclofenac and the risk of post-ERCP pancreatitis Regal BA Limited v Jun Zhang [2026] EWHC 1446 (Ch) Lessons for Expert Witnesses from O'Neill v Scottish Ambulance Service Board: Independence, Expertise and the Boundaries of Expert Opinion in Remote Clinical Triage Advocate Economists and the Competition Appeal Tribunal Switch article Wigan Borough Council v Scullindale Global Limited [2021] EWHC 779 (Ch) Previous Article M(C) v M(M) [2021] SC EDIN 31 Next Article Comments are only visible to subscribers.