Never underestimate the importance of properly instructing expert witnesses, writes Mark Solon, founder, Bond Solon, in this week’s NLJ. He recounts a cautionary tale of high fashion, demanding celebrities and an expert witness who, as the judge put it, ‘did not fare well in the witness box’
By contrast, the expert for the opposing side did not put a foot wrong. Solon looks at the problems arising from the poorly instructed expert’s evidence and the lessons that can be learned.
He concludes: ‘It really doesn’t help the case if the lacunae are revealed in oral evidence.’
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