by Mark Tottenham BL | May 29, 2024 | Uncategorized
“Excellent and thorough resource for expert witness work. Insightful and cleverly written by Mark Tottenham. Highly recommend.” – Justin Masterson, Civil engineer and arbitrator, with international project management experience, on large-scale infrastructure...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Feb 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
Too many expert witnesses in common law courts find themselves in hot water, because they don’t understand what is expected of them. If you want to be a reliable expert witness, here are the 13 simple duties you MUST be aware of: 1. Tell the truth, both in oral...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Oct 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
In a voting right case in Florida, the University of Florida has barred its academic staff from giving expert evidence. More here: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/30/1050817670/university-florida-professors-free-speech-voting-rights?t=1635697496279
by Mark Tottenham BL | Jul 1, 2021 | Examples of expert evidence
In the recent case of Hughes v Pritchard [2021] EWHC 1580, the judge found that a testator had lacked testamentary capacity notwithstanding expert evidence to the contrary. The testator had a history consistent with dementia, including lapses of memory and behavioural...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Jul 1, 2021 | Duties of expert witnesses, Misconduct by experts
A new judgment by the High Court of England and Wales emphasises the duties of experts to co-operate with each other in the sharing of relevant information. The case, Dana UK AXLE Ltd v Freudenberg FST GmbH [2021] EWHC 1413 (TCC) (26 May 2021), concerned the failure...