by Mark Tottenham BL | Oct 30, 2019 | Admissibility of expert evidence, Misconduct by experts
High Court: (a) dismisses appeal from decision of Fitness to Practice Committee of the General Medical Council that actions of a psychiatrist amounted to misconduct in that he accepted instructions in an FTP hearing concerning a paramedic when he was not an...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Oct 18, 2019 | Foreign laws
The Court of Appeal allowed an appeal from the High Court, and determined that the English courts did have jurisdiction to hear a claim for over US$2 billion. The court considered the jurisdiction of the Ukrainian courts in determining the appeal, and received...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Oct 7, 2019 | Education of decision makers
https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/neuberger-expert-witness-primers-will-cut-costs-/5101585.article “Speaking at the Expert Witness Institute’s annual conference yesterday, the Rt. Hon. Lord Neuberger said the judiciary was working with the royal societies of...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Oct 7, 2019 | Case management
Mayr & Ors v CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP [2018] EWHC 3669 (Comm) (High Court, Males J, 14 December 2018) The High Court, in a pre-trial review hearing, determined that the claimant could not adduce expert evidence, where the expert was not expected to...
by Mark Tottenham BL | Oct 7, 2019 | Misconduct by experts
Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Ltd v Zafar [2019] EWCA Civ 392 (Court of Appeal, Sir Terence Etherton (presiding), 19 March 2019) In this case, the Court of Appeal held that the sentence of six months, suspended, was unduly lenient for an expert witness...
