Cases - EPI Environmental Technologies Inc and another v Symphony Plastic Technologies plc and another

Record details

Name

EPI Environmental Technologies Inc and another v Symphony Plastic Technologies plc and another

Date

[2004]

Citation

EWHC 2945 (Ch)

Keywords

Expert witness

Summary

It is essential for judges to evaluate the evidence of witnesses (expert and non-expert) in its entirety. Errors, or even lies, in evidence would not automatically deprive the rest of the evidence of its value.

It is also essential that witnesses are challenged with the other side's case. Failure to put a point forward should usually disentitle the point from being taken in a closing address.

A judge is rarely helped by competing experts' reports which express opinions not tested or not maintainable by reference to supporting material. It is not useful simply to leave the judge to find their own analysis of experts' reports without them being put to the test of cross-examination.