14 November Case Updates Admissibility or weight: what is the test for expert evidence? Admissibility, Impartiality, Expert's behaviour, Bias, Independence, Duties of the Expert, Duty of Expert, Duty to the court, Legal role of an expert witness, Expert bias In an exceptional case, as here, where the expert singularly and spectacularly fails in their duties to the court, expert evidence may be deemed inadmissible and never get to the stage of being tested for weight.
10 August Case Updates Gallagher v Gallagher (No.2) (Financial Remedies) [2022] EWFC 53 General, Hot-tubbing, Impartiality Topics: Experts’ duties Impartiality Concurrent expert evidence (‘hot-tubbing’)
15 July Giving Oral Evidence The good, the bad and the ugly: Coldunell Limited V Hotel Management International Ltd Expert evidence, Impartiality, Conflicts of interest, Bias, Independence, Oral testimony Judgment highlights a partisan expert, excellent practice from three experts, and the lengths the other side might go to discredit your expert evidence.
23 August Giving Oral Evidence PCP Capital Partners LLP v Barclays Bank PLC [2021] EWHC 307 (Comm), 2021 WL 00741982 General, Impartiality, Expert's behaviour, Oral testimony Relevance: General Topics: Oral testimony Impartiality
15 June Case Updates Criterion Buildings Ltd v McKinsey and Co Inc (United Kingdom) [2021] EWHC 216 (Ch) General, Impartiality, Independence Nature of case: a claim for sums in respect of service charges said to be due under leases.
15 February Case Updates The Government of the United States of America v Assange (2020) Westminster Magistrates’ Court General, Impartiality, Autistic spectrum disorder, Extradition, Psychiatry ‘Those bloody books’ Relevance: General Psychiatry Topics: Extradition Impartiality Duty to court Suicide risk Autistic spectrum disorder
27 July Case Updates Mr Daniel Donovan, Naled Limited v Grainmarket Asset Management LLP [2020] EWHC 17 (Comm), 2020 WL 00129792 General, Impartiality, Commercial, Incorrect assumption, Change of opinion Relevance: General Commercial Topics: Impartiality Incorrect assumption Change of opinion
27 July Case Updates Valerie Bannister (Widow and Executrix of the Estate of Dennis Charles Bannister, Deceased) v Freemans Public Limited Company [2020] EWHC 1256 (QB), 2020 WL 02543788 General, Impartiality Relevance: General Topics: Adverse judicial comment Impartiality
1 March Case Updates General Medical Council v Zafar [2020] EWHC 846 (Admin), [2020] 4 WLUK 134 General, Impartiality, Dishonesty “Factory work” Relevance: General Topic: Impartiality Dishonesty