Various Claimants v McAlpine and others [2016] EWHC 45 (QB), [2016] All ER (D) 163 (Jan)
The Queen’s Bench Division dismissed an application by the claimants to admit expert evidence estimation of their potential career earnings in the construction industry. Having considered CPR PD 35 and its guidance on instructing experts the court accepted the defendants’ submissions that the methodology proposed was merely research and further that it could not be said that what was proposed would assist the court in determining the matters which were in issue.
