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[2025] NICA 76
How often do you see an expert witness themself become part of the reason a criminal conviction is overturned? That is, in effect, what happened in The King v ZX [2025] NICA 76, a decision of the Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland concerning convictions…
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High Court (King’s Bench Division)
[2026] EWHC 2294 (KB)
An expert may have sound reasons for favouring a particular answer. But explaining those reasons is only part of the task. Where there are competing opinions, the report also needs to show that they have been considered fairly, including the…
First-tier Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
An expert is perfectly entitled to reach a strong opinion which supports the case of the party instructing them. The difficulty is when the reasoning appears to work the other way round, with the party’s case driving the expert opinion.…
Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber)
[2026] UKUT 317 (IAC)
A recent Upper Tribunal decision gives some unusually practical guidance for experts who rely on material found online. In SU (Expert reports – format) Bangladesh [2026] UKUT 317 (IAC) , the Tribunal considered expert reports which drew heavily on publicly…
