Expert Witnesses

Brian Hallissey BL considers the implications of a recent Court of Appeal ruling for expert witnesses and the lawyers who call them. There is a very significant warning sounded by the Court of Appeal to experts and their lawyers in Patrick Duffy v Brendan McGee t/a McGee Insulation Services & An

A judge in Northern Ireland's High Court has rebuked lawyers over an expert witness who said the planning permission at the centre of the case was "unlawful". Mr Justice Michael Humphreys made the remarks after rejecting several grounds of challenge against planning permission for a GAA stadium in C

The Supreme Court has ruled that an expert witness retained by a plaintiff in competition proceedings should be excluded from the case on the basis that he had previously provided advise to the defendant in separate proceedings. The court held that the expert would have received confidential and pri