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Construction Focus: Expert shopping
John Starr reviews the courts’ stance on shopping around for an expert ‘Recent case law shows the court’s discouragement of expert shopping moving to encompass pre-action activity as well.’Construction disputes invariably involve a number of third parties; professionals tasked in one way or another with helping to resolve the dispute. There are arbitrators, adjudicators, mediators …
Cases Referenced
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- BEA Hotels BV v Bellway LLC [2007] EWHC 1363 (Comm)
- Beck v Ministry of Defence [2003] EWCA Civ 1043
- BSkyB Ltd & anor v HP Enterprise Services UK Ltd & anor (rev 1) [2010] EWHC 86 (TCC)
- Henderson v R [2010] EWCA Crim 1269
- Lanes Group Plc v Galliford Try Infrastructure Ltd [2011] EWHC 1035 (TCC); [2011] EWHC 1679 (TCC); [2011] EWCA Civ 1617
- Tubb v JD Wetherspoon plc [2011] EWCA Civ 136