Relevance:                  General

Topic:                         Change of opinion

Relevance:                  General

                                    Orthopaedics

Topics:                        Bias

                                    Reliance on literature

                                    Cauda equina syndrome

The Honourable Mr Justice Fraser highlights the numerous failings of an Expert in Beattie Passive Norse Ltd & Anor v Canham Consulting Ltd [2021] EWHC 1116 (TCC).

The Guardian reports that a new study has found participants found more or less evidence on hard drive depending on what contextual information they had.

Relevance:      Psychiatry

                        Capacity assessments

Topic:             Assessment of capacity

Topics:            Uncorroborated history          

                        Assumed facts

Topics:            Material contribution

                        Post-traumatic stress disorder

Relevance:       General

                        Commercial

Topics:             Impartiality

                        Incorrect assumption

                        Change of opinion

The expert is now closely regulated by the rules. Provided that they conduct themselves in an honest, competent and careful professional manner they are unlikely to transgress the rules. However, experience has shown that there are pitfalls, pitfalls which may have serious consequences.