Expert Evidence – Do’s and Don’ts

ZZZ v Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWHC 1642 (QB)  This article originally appeared in Issue 3 (November 2019). Following a car accident in 2011, XXX brought proceedings against ZZZ. The claim was settled for £3 million plus annual periodical payments. ZZZ then brought contribution proceedings against Yeovil…

Bespoke Life Expectancy Evidence

Dodds v Arif & Anor [2019] EWHC 1512 (QB)  This article originally appeared in Issue 2 (July 2019). The court refused a Defendant’s application at a CMC to admit evidence from an expert specifically in the field of life-expectancy statistics and calculations. It provided guidance as the types of cases…

Expert evidence

Jones v Taunton & Somerset NHS Foundation Trust [2019] EWHC 563 (QB) This article originally appeared in Issue 1 (May 2019). The court permitted a Defendant NHS Trust to substitute its medical expert eleven weeks before trial where its original expert had stated that the Claimant’s experts had raised matters…