Expert Witness Snapshot

I am a Chartered Building Surveyor and RICS Registered Valuer, with extensive expertise in Civil and Criminal Expert Witness work. I am the Practice Principal and Founder of T.R. Davies Limited, Chartered Surveyors and Valuers, (established in 1998), an independent practice providing property related services throughout South Wales, and the UK. I have 40 year’s experience in the property/construction profession. I am a fully qualified Chartered Building Surveyor, an RICS Registered Valuer, and a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. I have passed the Cardiff University, Bond Solon Diploma in both Civil and Criminal Expert Witness Practice, and also the RICS Diploma in Expert Witness Practice. I am an RICS Registered Valuer. I am a registered Property Expert/Forensic Surveyor with the National Crime Agency, (NCA), working with Police and Trading Standards Officers, principally dealing with Rogue Traders throughout the UK.

My experience and expertise covers;

• Expert Witness Work – Civil


• Expert Witness Work – Criminal


• Residential Surveys and Valuations


• Building Defect Pathology (defect analysis/investigation)


• Domestic Workmanship standards


• Domestic Building Disputes and Quantification


• Surveyor Professional Negligence


• Building related Insurance Claims


• Party Wall Matters


• Building Conservation/Period Buildings


• Structural Surveys

I have worked nationwide and internationally throughout my career. I am an active Board member of RICS Wales and I regularly provide CPD lectures to students, CPD candidates and fellow Chartered Surveyors. I was also formerly an examiner on the RICS Accredited Foundation Degree Course at Reading University (2015 – 2021). I have been for many years, one of the Judges on the RICS “Wales Property Awards Programme”. I have made media appearances including BBC Wales “X-Ray”, BBC 1 “One-Show”, BBC “Morning Live”, BBC “Rogue Traders”, “Rip-off Britain”, BBC Radio Wales, BBC Radio 2 and numerous Channel 4 programmes. Membership by qualification of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors by examination in 1988, with Fellowship awarded in 2026. Membership of Academy of the Academy of Experts, the Residential Property Surveyor’s Association (RPSA), the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings (SPAB), Accredited Property Expert with National Crime Agency (since 2010).