Expert Matters - The Podcast

After considering the report from the Single Joint Expert, the Wife in financial remedy proceedings attempted unsuccessfully to make a Daniels v Walker application to adduce evidence from her solely instructed expert. The judge set out the law on Daniels v Walker before applying it to the specifics of the case. 

When an SJE has been appointed, but one of the parties wishes to rely on their own evidence, the court should follow the staggered approach recommended by Lord Woolf in Daniels v. Walker.

John Seneschall v Trisant Foods Limited & Ors [2024] EWHC 1380 (Ch)

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.

More on parental alienation

This includes questions from the opposing solicitor.

Having prepared a report for a criminal case the ‘Probation Service’ has requested that the report be released including a signed consent form from the client.

The case: Dr Bux appealed against the findings of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal and against its decision directing his erasure from the Medical Register.

Relevance:      General

Topics:            Disclosure of instructions

                        Disclosure of documents relied upon

                        Retention of records of investigations carried out

                        Cooperation with the adverse party’s experts           

                        Guidance for the Instruction of Experts in Civil Claims 2014

                        CPR Part 35

                        TCC Guide

                        Independence

                        Experts meetings

Relevance:      General

Topics:            Conflict of interest

                        Statement of truth

                        Medical records

                        Differential diagnosis

                        Causal analysis

                        Reasoning

“Be sure your sins will find you out”

Relevance: General.

Issues:  Admissibility of covert recording of neuropsychological assessment
             Disproportionate Part 35 questions