by Mark Tottenham BL | Jan 16, 2021 | Arbitration, mediation and conciliation
In an article in the ACICA Review, published by the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, Ruby Lee and David Van Homrigh of KordaMentha assess the experience of a year of virtual hearings in arbitration, particularly as regards expert evidence....
by Mark Tottenham BL | Jan 14, 2021 | Misconduct by experts
In this blog post from 2017, Jerry Hayes, barrister and former Conservative MP raises serious questions about the conduct of a forensic laboratory that had confirmed a DNA link between a defendant and a firearm, in a case where he was instructed as prosecuting...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Jan 12, 2021 | Duties of expert witnesses
In Secretariat Consulting PTE Ltd & Ors v A Company [2021] EWCA Civ 6 (11 January 2021), a firm of expert witnesses appealed a ruling by Ms Justice O’Farrell that they could not act for two different clients in related arbitration. The Court of Appeal...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Jan 12, 2021 | Examples of expert evidence
The Supreme Court of India has set aside the conviction of two persons, including one who had been sentenced to death, following a challenge to the fingerprint evidence. Not only was there a doubt over the reliability of the evidence, but even if it had been reliable,...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Jan 11, 2021 | Examples of expert evidence, Misconduct by experts
It was reported in 2018 that 40 convictions relating to drug driving had been quashed as the result of data tampering at a laboratory belonging to Randox Testing Services. Another 10,500 cases were potentially affected. Link It seems that the company itself had acted...
