A recent case about a snowmobile accident (Cannestra v McLaren Automotive Events) has been much commented on because the Claimant seems to have constructed a version of events somewhat at odds with his comments at the time that ”it was all his own fault” . But as the judge sat through the expert evidence from both sides he could have been forgiven for thinking he was trapped in a story with an unremittingly downward plot, like Hamlet or Kafka’s Metamorphosis.

At the top end of the scale was an expert whose report was “thoughtful and well researched. He gave evidence openly and flexibly, as an expert should. “  but the judge commented with some puzzlement at the omission, presumably for tactical reasons, of an opinion on a technical key issue in the case.