BLACKPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL v VOLKERFITZPATRICK LTD AND OTHERS

[2020] BLR 340

QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION(TECHNOLOGY AND CONSTRUCTION COURT)

Before HHJ Davies

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.