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Experts often have to rely on their clients and instructing solicitors to provide them with the material they need to form opinion. That evidence may be documents, data from an IT system or audio or video recordings and if the evidence you are given is incomplete or distorted in some way your opinions may turn […]
The High Court ruling against Danish tax authority SKAT in a £1.4 billion dividend tax fraud case has been widely reported, not least because the judge concluded that SKAT’s controls on the transactions involved were so flimsy as to represent the equivalent of a ‘help yourself’ sign outside a bank. Less attention has been […]
The Criminal Procedure Rules Committee have issued a new consolidated set of the Criminal Procedure Rules which came into force on 6th October 2025. The Criminal Procedure Rules 2025 replaces the Criminal Procedure Rules 2020 and incorporates the 9 sets of amendments made since the 2020 rules were published. The Committee has also published a […]
The Academy’s GDPR guidance turned 5 this year so we thought it was a good time to review it in the light of a better understanding of how GDPR has been implemented in practice. One of the challenges of developing guidance for our expert members is they cover a wide range of specialisms and as […]
Everything you need to know about Anti Money Laundering before you take an instruction.
Most discussion (and criticism) of experts revolves around issues where experts disagree, often in ways that are pivotal to a case. But there are many cases that go unnoticed where experts agree on most, if not all, of the important issues, which for the most part is what you would expect from professional experts given […]
The Expert and Dispute Resolver, affectionately know as TEDR, is the Journal of the Academy of Experts. Members of the Academy will know that it was edited in the past by the late Michael Cohen who founded the Academy and who sadly passed away last year. We’re grateful to Ben Johnson who has stepped into […]
As well as our online courses we run a full series of in person training courses in Hong Kong. All courses take place at the Hong Kong Football Club and run from 9.30am until 5.00pm unless otherwise shown. Our next series of Hong Kong courses takes place during November 2025: Expert Presentations – 20th November […]
Most judicial criticism of experts arises from either ignorance of the basic rules of expert evidence or because experts who understand and have tried to apply the rules have slipped off the straight and narrow path, usually from a desire to help their clients. So while judges comments are often direct and colourful they generally […]
The Academy held its Annual General Meeting on 14 October. As with most similar organisations, this is an important element of the Academy’s governance. Several decisions are reserved to the membership in general meeting. These include the appointment of new members of council, the election of officers and the adoption of accounts. The following officers […]
