BLACKPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL v VOLKERFITZPATRICK LTD AND OTHERS

[2020] BLR Plus 18

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION (TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT)

Before HHJ Stephen Davies (Sitting as a Judge of the High Court)

Expert evidence - Interlocutory application for expert evidence to be excluded as inadmissible for lack of independence - Whether giving unilateral instructions to testing house was breach of expert's duties under CPR Part 35 - Whether jointly instructed testing house was single joint expert - Whether expert had duty to notify counterparts of tests it had procured