30 October Case Updates Craigard (Dartford) Limited & Anor v Westbury Homes (Holdings) Limited & Anor [2026] EWHC 2453 (TCC) Chartered Building Surveyor, 07. Receiving Instructions, 16. Criticism and Complaints, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, 11. Report Writing, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements, 15. Giving Oral Evidence, Building Dilapidation, Building Services Engineer The case dealt with the claim by the landlord for breach of the tenant’s covenants and conditions following the expiry of the tenant’s lease on an office building in Dartford. Two of the experts in the case were disadvantaged by having to form their opinions on the basis of access to limited information and another by instructions which meant that his analysis was entirely premised on his clients’ case
30 June Case Updates Regal BA Limited v Jun Zhang [2026] EWHC 1446 (Ch) Chartered Building Surveyor, 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, Property valuation, 11. Report Writing, 08. Working with Instructing Parties, 15. Giving Oral Evidence The claimant sought damages amounting to the difference between the £16.9 million contract sale price from a failed house sale and the sum ultimately obtained for the property of £10.1 million, less that £2.5 million forfeited deposit. After finding the expert evidence compromised by the information provided to the experts, the judge set out a better approach to expert evidence in property valuation.
23 January Case Updates A demonstrably incapable and incompetent witness who was not fit to have been put forward as an expert witness Hot-tubbing, Chartered Building Surveyor, Northern Ireland, concurrent expert evidence, The Ikarian Reefer, 06. Rules and Regulations For surveyor experts, this case illustrates some very basic errors and it may therefore also be a useful case for expert surveyor witness training. McBride v McGuigan & Anor [2024] NIMaster 20
10 May Case Updates O v O [2023] EWFC 161 Expert evidence, Single joint expert, Questions to expert, Chartered Building Surveyor, 09. Being instructed as a Single Joint Expert, 12. Responding to questions A Single Joint Expert caused difficulties by an unwise pre-hearing exchange with one of the parties in the absence of the other party, and legal representatives.