8 August Case Updates Palmer v Mantas [2022] EWHC 90 (QB) General, Part 35, Personal injury, Bias, Language, Exaggeration / Dishonesty, Preparation for a personal injury assessment “Mind your language and avoid pre-judging the claimant”
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.
25 October Giving Oral Evidence R v Fitzsimmons v [2022] NICC 27 General, Bias, Voice attribution experts, Visual identification experts, Acoustic analysis, Auditory analysis “Can your paper trail be followed?”
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.
22 November Case Updates JAMES STEPHEN AND ANOTHER AS JOINT LIQUIDATORS OF RFC 2012 PLC FOR ORDERS UNDER PARAGRAPH 75 OF SCHEDULE B1 TO THE INSOLVENCY ACT 1986 [2021] ScotCS CSOH 99 Conflicts of interest, Bias Relevance: General
26 August Case Updates C v DT [2021] SC GLA 37, 2021 WL 02169444 Bias, Forced marriage, Socio-cultural evidence, Records Relevance: General Topics: Forced marriage Socio-cultural evidence Records Bias
26 August Starting your Expert Witness Business Beattie Passive Norse Limited v Canham Consulting Limited [2021] EWHC 1414 (TCC), 2021 WL 02170994 Bias, Independence, Objectivity, Expert's duty Relevance: General Topics: Experts’ duties Independence Bias Objectivity
24 August Case Updates Beattie Passive Norse Limited v Canham Consulting Limited [2021] EWHC 1116 (TCC) General, Bias, Independence, Language, Objectivity Relevance: General Topics: Independence Objectivity Language Bias
24 August Case Updates Towuaghantse v General Medical Council [2021] EWHC 681 (Admin) General, Conflicts of interest, Bias, Independence, Language Relevance: General Topics: Bias Conflict of interest Language Independence
23 August Case Updates Jarman v Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 323 (QB), 2021 WL 00622030 General, Behaviour of expert, Bias, Orthopaedics, Cauda equina syndrome Relevance: General Orthopaedics Topics: Bias Reliance on literature Cauda equina syndrome