I am a chartered quantity surveyor with over 18 years’ construction experience in residential, Ministry of Defence, education, healthcare, industrial, mixed-use, infrastructure and commercial building. I have significant hands-on experience in quantity surveying and contract administration under numerous suites/forms of contract including JCT, PPC, NEC, EPIC/EPC and bespoke forms, as well as experience of most methods of procurement. I am a Partner at Quantum Experts and able to act as a party-appointed or...

Building, construction problems: • Construction negligence • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Contractual disputes (construction) • Contractors, subcontractors disputes • Improper contract administration (construction) • Cost disputes (construction) • Professional fees claims • Programming, time disputes (construction) • Property insurance, claims investigation • Risk assessment (property insurance) • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Personal injury (property insurance) •...

Forensic Architect involved with the investigation of building defects and allegations of professional negligence for construction disputes. Cases have included: • Fire safety defects in the design and construction of higher risk residential buildings • Waterproofing defects in the design and construction of basements • Review of the responsibilities of design team consultants • Defects under building contracts • Review of building maintenance and operations strategies

Quantity surveying • Quantum • Construction contracts • Quantification and valuation of work carried out • Quantification of damages, loss and/or expenses incurred • Liability in professional negligence matters • Liability in professional indemnity matters • Programming issues (e.g. delay, extension of time, acceleration and disruption) • Due diligence forensic examination of companies and projects

Business & share valuations • Business interruption • Contract disputes • Security for costs • Section 994 petitions • Diversion of trade • Loss of earnings, benefits & pensions • Loss of dependency • Drug trafficking • Matrimonial disputes • Insurance litigation • Fraudulent insurance claims • Directors' disqualification • Professional negligence • Mediation • Expert determination on appointment by President of ICAEW & directly • Past member of Support Member, Forensic & Ethics Advisory committees at ICAEW • Member of Investigation Committee...

Quantum, loss of profit, particularly in insurance claims • Business interruption following fire, flood or burglary • Personal injury quantum • Professional negligence claims • Forensic accounting & litigation support • Security for costs application • Employment disputes • Business valuations • Football player transfer valuations • Matrimonial disputes • Proceeds of crime • Fraud • Criminal defence • Expert determination

Expert Services The specialists within Best Practice Group have extensive experience in providing Expert Witness Services as part of litigation or dispute resolution. We work with firms of solicitors and barristers along with their clients and lay-clients to provide wholly objective and independent Expert Witness Services. Our technical people assess technical evidence to determine levels of liability and delineation of roles and responsibilities in major programmes and projects. Our forensic accounting specialists...

David is part of the architects' practice Purcell, who have offices around the UK, thus providing a local presence. His direct email is given above. • Practised since 1973 • Special expertise with historic buildings • How architects work and the standards expected of them • How buildings are procured, designed and constructed • How contractors work and the standards expected of them • Investigating defects, identifying causes and responsibility • Building contracts, standard forms, use and interpretation

I am a Chartered Building Surveyor and a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with over a decade of surveying experience. I have also completed the RICS Expert Witness Certificate, and am familiar with providing CPR35-compliant reports. The majority of my experience is within core building surveying services, providing building surveys, building pathology and defect diagnosis, damp diagnosis and contract administration. I have a specific skillset within the heritage and listed buildings...

Experience of giving evidence under cross-examination both as a party expert and a single joint expert • Able to accept instructions on: • Professional negligence by architects & building surveyors • Building conservation & listed buildings • Building contract disputes • Failures of contract administration • Programming & time disputes • Design, architectural & construction defects • Building design • Claims for professional fees • Construction professional indemnity claims • Accredited Adjudicator • Chartered Arbitrator

Personal injury & fatal accidents, including loss of income & profits, loss of pension rights & loss of dependency • Loss of profits & consequential loss, including business interruption, misrepresentations, breaches of contract & breaches of warranty • Professional negligence, including accountants & auditors • Business & share valuations • Fraud investigations, including theft & misappropriation, false accounting & fraudulent trading • Insurance claims • Commercial claims & partnership disputes • Divorce • Confiscation...

Nick Andrews is a partner in BDO's Forensic Services department. He regularly acts as an expert witness in the High Court and in arbitrations, having been a partner in the forensic market for 25 years. He has acted as an expert accountant in over 200 cases in many market sectors and has given oral evidence on 20 occasions. All matters requiring a Chartered Accountant with 40 years' experience across the full range of accounting issues • SPA completion accounts disputes • Loss of profits • Assessing the quantum...

Expert witness • Professional negligence • Fraud • Breach of contract • Divorce • Licensing & royalties recovery • Share & business valuations • Criminal work • Intellectual property • Single joint expert • Expert determination • Consequential loss • Personal injury cases Qualifications BSc(Hons) Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester; Chartered Accountant 1980; Member, Academy of Experts; Certified Fraud Examiner. Career 1976-1980 Trained and qualified with Dearden Farrow. 1980-1987 Joined Landau Morley as audit...

I am a chartered quantity surveyor with over 18 years’ construction experience in residential, Ministry of Defence, education, healthcare, industrial, mixed-use, infrastructure and commercial building. I have significant hands-on experience in quantity surveying and contract administration under numerous suites/forms of contract including JCT, PPC, NEC, EPIC/EPC and bespoke forms, as well as experience of most methods of procurement. I am a Partner at Quantum Experts and able to act as a party-appointed or...

RICS Registered Expert Witness I am a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with 30 years' construction experience in commercial, education, healthcare, justice, industrial, mixed-use, retail, infrastructure and residential buildings. I have significant hands-on experience in numerous forms of contract, including JCT, NEC, PFI, IChemE and bespoke main and subcontract forms. Quantum • Valuation of work carried out and sums withheld • Application of Construction Act • Payment notices • Payless notices • Notified sums • Extension...

I am a Chartered Quantity Surveyor with significant experience in the construction and engineering industry. My expertise covers professional negligence, contractual disputes, contract administration issues and costs disputes. I am the holder of an expert witness training certificate issued by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Forensic accounting • Insurance claims • Business interruption claims • Increased costs of working • Stock claims • Personal injury actions • Fatal accident claims • Loss of pension • Loss of benefits • Loss of profit • Loss of dependency • Contractual disputes • Agency disputes • Breach of warranty • Contentious valuations • Shareholder disputes • Matrimonial disputes • Probate disputes

Sat is national Head of BDO's Regional Forensic Accounting services in the UK and is a leading expert on accounting matters with over 25 years' experience. Business valuations • Shareholder disputes • Intellectual property disputes • Partnership disputes • Matrimonial issues • Personal injury • Criminal defence • Crime matters • Professional negligence • S994 matters • Fraud investigation & prevention • Quantum • Expert determination • Commercial disputes • Warranty & contract disputes • Asset tracing • Insurance disputes & business interruption...

I undertake expert witness and advisory forensic accounting work, as well as delivering investigation-responsive assignments. I am instructed on cases in civil, family and criminal proceedings, as well as being appointed as a single joint expert, where I have given oral testimony in court. These matters may involve the following: • Consequential loss calculations • Insured loss assessments • Shareholder, partnership and matrimonial disputes • Intellectual property disputes • Breach of warranty and contract claims •...

Neighbourly & Boundary Disputes I have been appointed as party wall surveyor for building owners and adjoining owners. I frequently provide advice to parties wishing to undertake works close to or on the boundary, which may or may not fall within the Party Wall etc. Act 1996. This includes commercial and domestic clients. I am employed to help resolve disputes between parties over neighbourly matters, including the undertaking of building works or the removal of boundary features by one party, the position...

Experienced in providing expert reports & expert evidence in court in connection with all types of litigation support work, including: • Personal injury • Fatal accident • Clinical negligence • Professional negligence claims • Loss of profit claims • Business & share valuations • Loss of earnings, loss of pension benefits and loss of chance of higher earnings are particular specialities • Forensic investigations • Willing to undertake claimant & defendant work • Over 1000 expert reports prepared • Numerous court appearances • Estimates...

David is part of the architects' practice Purcell, who have offices around the UK, thus providing a local presence. His direct email is given above. • Practised since 1973 • Special expertise with historic buildings • How architects work and the standards expected of them • How buildings are procured, designed and constructed • How contractors work and the standards expected of them • Investigating defects, identifying causes and responsibility • Building contracts, standard forms, use and interpretation

Forensic Accountant • Expert Witness • Expert Determiner I accept instructions covering: • Forensic accounting reports for claimant & defendant actions • Professional negligence claims - accountancy & auditing • Commercial disputes - business disputes, partnership disputes, consequential loss, share valuations, breach of contract, business interruption • Personal injury - loss of earnings, consequential loss • Theft & false accounting Specialising in criminal matters: • Fraud, money laundering, proceeds of crime, confiscation...

Building surveying • Building pathology and building defects • Construction disputes • Professional negligence in relation to building surveying and contract administration • Dilapidations • Party wall matters

Quantum • Construction, civil engineering, railway, highway, infrastructure, building & refurbishment • Loss of profit in construction contracts • Breach of construction contracts • Extension of time analysis • Loss and expense claims • Flood damage • Fire/smoke damage • Storm damage • Professional fees Construction/quantity surveying costs Control • Planning • Forecasting • Estimating • Interim valuations • Delay cost calculations • Cashflow • Valuation of sums withheld Construction contracts Subcontracts • Procurement, selection...

Construction defects: investigations & reports into defective work with respect to new & refurbished buildings • Professional negligence: investigations & reports into professional negligence of architects & surveyors • Contract matters: investigations & reports into contract & sub-contract disputes

Expert witness reports on garden and landscape projects relating to standards, quality of construction, workmanship and contractual issues relating to Terms and Conditions and CDM Regulations • Accredited Evaluative Mediator for Civil and Commercial Disputes • Specialising in dispute issues in the garden and landscape industry, including Civil Procedure Rules Part 35 reports, statements of opinion, preliminary reports and distance reports

Construction final account disputes • Construction variation accounts • Professional negligence (quantity surveyor) • Bank monitoring • JCT, FIDIC, NEC and other forms of contract • Quantum

Quantification of damages in relation to claims in areas such as: • Loss of profit claims • Shareholder disputes • Section 994 claims • Valuation of businesses & shares • Professional negligence claims • Matrimonial claims • Partnership disputes • Fraud investigations • Purchase & sale of business disputes • Financial investigation such as security for costs • Assessment of the merits of litigation • Loss of earnings & personal injury claims

Building contract disputes • Disrepair claims • Defective design & workmanship negligence claims • Building pathology • Building conversion & restoration • Party Wall, etc., Act Mr Mathieson is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Managing Director of Ellis Belk Associates Limited and a practising Chartered Building Surveyor with many years' experience investigating building defects of both design and workmanship. In addition to his expert witness workload, Mr Mathieson has been involved with Channel...

David is part of the architects' practice Purcell, who have offices around the UK, thus providing a local presence. His direct email is given above. • Practised since 1973 • Special expertise with historic buildings • How architects work and the standards expected of them • How buildings are procured, designed and constructed • How contractors work and the standards expected of them • Investigating defects, identifying causes and responsibility • Building contracts, standard forms, use and interpretation

Building construction problems: • Negligence • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Contractual disputes • Contractor & sub-contractor disputes • Improper contract administration (construction) • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Town & country planning: • Listed buildings • Architectural design: • Building conservation • Listed buildings • Design defects (faults) • Architectural defects • Construction works: • Project management (construction) • Architectural & building technology ...

Structural engineering design • Building contracts • Settlement or subsidence problems • Insurance relating to buildings • Civil engineering • Structural failures • Drainage • Accidents: industrial & commercial

I specialise in forensic accounting, including areas of litigation support such as breach of contract, professional negligence, matrimonial & criminal matters. I am a chartered arbitrator, an accredited mediator & have experience in specialist commercial matters, including share valuations, insurance claims, management consultancy, corporate recovery, fraud investigations, forensic reconstruction & back duty tax investigations.

David is part of the architects' practice Purcell, who have offices around the UK, thus providing a local presence. His direct email is given above. • Practised since 1973 • Special expertise with historic buildings • How architects work and the standards expected of them • How buildings are procured, designed and constructed • How contractors work and the standards expected of them • Investigating defects, identifying causes and responsibility • Building contracts, standard forms, use and interpretation

Provides professional services in the following field of expertise: • Construction defects • Building contract and property title disputes • Landlord and tenant dilapidations • Section 11 housing disrepair

Suspended ceilings • Partitions • Raised access floors • Dry lining & drywall partitions • Glass & glazed partitions • Shaftwalls • Plasterwork (solid & cast) • External render • Stucco • Subcontract disputes (building) • Interior fit-outs • Extensive experience in acting as expert engaged on behalf of building owners, main & management contractors, subcontractors & specialists in disputes as to quantum, performance, merchantable or satisfactory quality, fitness for purpose & infringement of design copyright • Appointments as expert...

Building & construction problems Negligence (construction) • Professional negligence (architecture & construction) • Home improvement disputes • Cladding disputes • Contractual disputes (construction) • Contractor/subcontractor disputes (construction) • Improper contract administration (construction) • Cost disputes (construction) • Professional fees claims • Programming & time disputes (construction) • Claims investigation (property insurance) • Professional indemnity (construction) Surveying & valuation Surveyor negligence Construction...

Building contract disputes • Surveyor, architect & engineer professional negligence • Valuation of construction works • Final account auditing & evaluation • Measurement of construction works • Fire damage & flood restoration costs • Contractual claims • Insolvency issues relating to construction industry • Performance bond guarantee claims

Building contract disputes: financial & contractual analysis • Dilapidations claims • Dampness & disrepair claims • Party Wall Act • Defective or incomplete building works • Building defects: commercial & residential • Boundary disputes • Access to neighbouring land • Insolvency claims in construction contracts • Mr Frias-Robles is a Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (FRICS) • Party wall expert & Chairman of the Pyramus and Thisbe Club (Wessex Branch)

Christopher is Head of FRP's Forensic Services practice. He brings over 25 years of experience of forensic accounting, including acting as an expert witness. His work covers disputes, fraud, bribery and corruption investigations, asset-tracing and recovery investigations, regulatory inquiries and compliance and risk advisory assignments. He has been cross-examined on multiple occasions in the High Court and International Arbitration Tribunal.

Disrepair • Construction defects • Design and specification • Construction procurement and tendering • Programme management • Contract administration • Housing • Educational buildings

Building surveying: • Structural surveys & valuation • Boundary disputes • Party wall administration • Building defect diagnosis • Construction & contract administration • Building disputes • Subsidence damage • Leasehold dilapidations • Duties of a Chartered Surveyor or Valuer & negligence • Double glazing & conservatory disputes • Fire damage • Fire precautions & means of escape • Kitchen & joinery installation disputes Simon Levy is the Principal of an active, multi-disciplined practice of Chartered Building Surveyors and Designers....

I am an architect with 35 years' experience on a range of building types and sizes and in various capacities. I completed my MSc in Construction Law and Arbitration at Kings College London and I also hold a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration. I am an arbitrator and adjudicator. I am a Member of the Institution of Fire Engineers and I hold a Professional Diploma in Fire Risk Assessment (Life Safety). Member of the Academy of Experts. Listed on the RIBA Register of Experts. I hold the Cardiff University...

Extortion and blackmail containment strategies • Comprehensive complex fraud investigation • Discreet AI-enhanced profiling • Strategic crisis and reputation protection • Family dynamics and matrimonial solutions • Expert missing persons and debtor location service • Strategic private security operations • IT crime and digital forensic expertise • Strategic security consulting • Comprehensive forensic consulting A discreetly comprehensive consulting practice, established 1977

Analysis of defective building construction/design • Negligent building contract administration • Building contract disputes • Negligent building surveys of property • Dilapidations • Boundary disputes

Tom is a partner in and head of the forensic accounting team at Moore Kingston Smith LLP and has specialised in forensic accounting since qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 2002. He has been instructed on many occasions as an expert witness and has given evidence in the High Court, Crown Court, Family Court and Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber). Tom has extensive experience of business valuations, quantification of losses, compulsory purchase claims and fraud investigations. He is a member of the Expert...

A highly experienced Chartered Accountant and Expert Witness, and former senior equity partner with a top-10 international firm of chartered accountants. Charles has prepared many hundreds of cases and given oral evidence in courts and arbitrations in the UK and internationally on many occasions. Now he heads a boutique firm specialising in expert testimony for contentious business valuations, insurance claims and other quantification assignments. Charles is also a leading expert on compensation under The...

Architects' professional negligence • Architects' appointments & fees • Building contract disputes • Building defects & failures • Cladding & performance in fire • Contract claims, including adjudication response • Land & property disputes, including matters referred to Lands Tribunal • Liability within the design team • Historical analysis of buildings • Preparation of visualisations • Preparation of expert reports • Attendance at court • Participation in all forms of ADR • Representations in respect of planning applications, adjudication...

Valuing of: • Pecuniary damages associated with employer delays resulting in extension of time to completion in respect of construction contracts • Pecuniary damages associated with disruption claims as a result of breach by the employer • Additional or extra work due to changes in design disputed by the parties • Monetary costs in respect of insurance claims • Pecuniary damages associated with incomplete work or poor work executed by contractors

Building defects • Works not in accordance with Building Regulations • Reviews of design information in relation to scope • Reviews of the design/construction of external walls with respect to Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building Regulations (e.g. material specification, cavity barriers) • Performance of the architect or lead designer

Hugh has over 35 years’ experience in civil, structural and multidisciplinary design, engineering and management of major infrastructure and building projects, including design-build, PFI and BOT projects. He has been responsible for the design and management of many unique building and infrastructure projects, including complex above and below ground structures in difficult ground conditions. Hugh has extensive expertise in civil, structural, geotechnical, transportation, utility, water, wastewater design...

Experience in architectural practice both pre-contract & post-contract with particular reference to terms of appointment & construction methods & detailing • A detailed knowledge of building regulations involving legislation & building contracts • A member of the RIBA panel of adjudicators • A wide knowledge of landscape contracting disputes as a Director of Deberris Landscapes Ltd • Experience in preparation of reports under legal instruction as an expert both prior to issuing of proceedings & court action • Experience...