“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 projects, April 2023 – link “This book is a must read.” – Christophe Champod PhD, Professor of Forensic Science,...
The cricketing body, the MCC, is to offer evidence to retain the ‘bouncer’ in cricket, as it would otherwise become a batsman-friendly game, it has been reported by the Daily...
A Chicago court has dismissed an appeal from a drugs conviction where a police officer gave evidence of the language of meth dealing, and ‘translated’ a number of text messages:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Recently, I came across two cases that show, by contrast, how experts should and should not deal with each other when retained to assist in litigation. In the first, Trebor...
In a UK trial for foxhunting, a prosecution expert who was a longstanding opponent of hunting was seen kissing a prosecution witness. The defence applied to exclude his evidence. “Professor...
An actor who was dropped from a play, for posting allegedly homophobic comments online, has brought a case alleging discrimination on the grounds of religion. In a preliminary ruling, the...
Clint Eastwood, 90, is due to appear as an ‘expert witness’ in a French trial, according to the BBC. The trial arises from a plot to attack Americans on a...
The High Court of England and Wales has considered the question of whether a trial court is entitled to reject a plaintiff’s expert evidence, where no expert evidence has been...
