The Weekly Law Reports
[2011] 2 WLR 823
Supreme Court
Jones
v
Kaney
[2011] UKSC 13
2011 Jan 11,
12;
March 30
Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers PSC, Lord Hope of Craighead DPSC, Baroness Hale of Richmond, Lord Brown of Eaton-under-Heywood, Lord Collins of Mapesbury, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore, Lord Dyson JJSC
Evidence— Expert evidence— Immunity from suit— Joint statement agreed by parties’ experts for purposes of personal injury litigation— Claimant settling action disadvantageously after own expert revising earlier opinion— Claimant bringing action for negligence against expert— Whether expert immune from suit for breach of duty in relation to participation in legal proceedings— Whether claim to be struck out