The judgment in Liverpool Victoria Insurance Company Ltd v Khan & Ors [2018] EWHC 2581 (QB) was looked at earlier. It made the point that "reckless" reporting by experts can lead to experts being in contempt of court. This led me to consider a case I was involved in recently on behalf of a def...
i once lost an NIHL case because TWO ENT consultants (the first one had died and i had to start again) not only hadn’t read my instruction letter – which pointed out a clear problem with an early audiogram – but also hadn’t read the records – since i’d drawn attention to it i assumed that they had read everything and not seen a problem. when defendant eventually wrote to the 2nd expert and said, “what about this audiogram” he said – he hadn’t seen it before. and having looked at it, decided my client didn’t have NIHL. ggggrrrrhhhhh. i wanted to sue the experts for negligence but firm wouldn’t let me.