The role of an expert witness in court cases can have a strong influence on the outcome. This blog article covers some examples of court cases where the expert witness has had a critical influence on the outcome. Good or bad.
The Governors and Company of the Bank of Ireland and another v Watts Group PLC [2017] EWHC 1667 (TCC).
In this case, one of the expert witnesses was found to be not truly independent, as had worked for the Bank of Ireland on multiple occasions. They had also not entered into pre-hearing consultants fairly, and had misled the court.
Any organisation using an expert witness is advised to not use the same expert witness over a long period of time, but to use different people.
The articles below covers the court case in more detail.
More Expert Witness Examples
The separate articles below summarizes further examples of a bad expert witness, and how this can have bad consequences.