I am grateful to barrister Simon Mills for sending me a copy of the judgment of Judge Waksman QC (sitting as a judge of the High Court) in BHL -v- Leumi ABL Limited [2017] EWHC 1871 (QB). Here I look at the judge's comments on the defendant's expert evidence. It highlights the need for an expert t...
This witness might have suffered worse than this if he had given the same evidence in the UAE:
“An expert, arbitrator or translator or investigator who is appointed by a judicial or an administrative authority or elected by the parties, and who knowingly issue a decision or expresses an opinion or submits a report or presents a cause or proves an incident, in favour of a person or against him, contrary to the duty of fairness and unbiasedness, shall be punished by temporary imprisonment. The aforementioned categories shall be precluded from performing the duties they were charged with in the future.”
UAE Penal Code, Article 257