Reports that read well —
and stand up under cross-examination.

Expert witness work is its own discipline. The duty is to the court, not to the instructing party — but the report still has to be written clearly enough for a non-specialist judge to follow, and robustly enough to survive cross-examination by an experienced barrister. Most of our expert work settles before final hearing precisely because the report does that job properly first time.

We accept single joint expert appointments under CPR Part 35 for civil proceedings, single joint expert appointments in family proceedings under the Family Procedure Rules, and party-appointed expert instructions where the position calls for it. Subject matter is rural and residential valuation, agricultural landlord and tenant matters, partnership and shareholder disputes involving rural businesses, boundary and adverse possession claims, and rural compensation references to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber).

Reports are written to the structure the court expects — qualifications, instructions received, materials considered, factual findings, opinion with reasoning, range of opinion where appropriate, declaration and statement of truth. No woolly phrasing, no hedged conclusions where the facts permit a clear view, and no straying outside our area of competence. Where another specialist (forensic accountant, structural engineer, ecologist) is needed, we say so.