A high-court judge reminds experts of their duties to the court.

The Forensic Science Regulator has made a draft of the core part of the single statutory code available for informal comment.

The core competencies framework for Expert Witnesses sets out the attributes, knowledge, and skills that experts must develop if they wish to act as an Expert Witness.

The December 2021 issue of his Newsletter (Issue 37) has now been published.

Expert evidence can be crucial to the success, or failure, of a construction dispute; for example, a case can turn on a judge’s preference for one expert’s delay analysis over the other. Consequently, as Huw Wilkins explains, it is important that experts, as well as instructing solicitors and clients, understand the rules regulating expert evidence in dispute resolution procedures.

The case: Dr Bux appealed against the findings of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal and against its decision directing his erasure from the Medical Register.

The case: a claim arising out of the sale, by the Claimants (and the other shareholders) to the Defendant of their shareholdings contending that they were induced to sell by actionable misrepresentations.

The case: Appeals against convictions relating to the selling of carbon credits.

The case:        A banking case.

The reports of two experts contained no CPR-compliant statements of truth, nor did they otherwise comply with the requirements of CPR Part 35.