12 June Case Updates Take care not to conflate your role as a contractor with your duties as an expert witness 10. Records Assessments and Site Visits, Structural Engineering, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing, 15. Giving Oral Evidence The parties disagreed on the extent of the repairs required to the joists, and the manner in which the repairs should be effected, following the collapse of part of the ceiling in a building owned by the Claimant and partly leased by the Defendant. The Judge found that the Defendant’s expert’s failure to engage with all the available evidence and to seek to undertake a fuller examination of the joists meant that his evidence did not fully address the issues before the court.
12 June Case Updates Expert suggests Google would probably give the court a better answer than him 16. Criticism and Complaints, 17. Maintaining your professional edge, Structural Engineering, 06. Rules and Regulations, 11. Report Writing, 14. Changing your opinion, 13. Experts Discussions and Joint Statements, 15. Giving Oral Evidence The claimant alleged both negligence and breach of contract by the defendant designer of a container park near Felixstowe Port. The judge set out the reasons why she was not impressed by the claimant’s expert and treated his evidence with significant caution. MJS Projects (March) Limited v RPS Consulting Services Limited [2025] EWHC 831 (TCC)