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THE EXPERT WITNESS
THE JOURNAL FOR INSTRUCTING PROFESSIONALS & EXPERT WITNESSES
Welcome to the
Expert Witness Journal
ENGINEERING
FINANCE - SURVEYING
Issue 62 August September 2025 - £5.00
€6.00
Hello and welcome to our August/September issue, the main focus of this issue is non-medical experts.
Non-medical is a wide ranging term and covers many areas, such as surveying experts,
professionals who measure and map land, buildings, and other structures, just as a Financial expert
deals with banking, mortgages etc. They both have cross over with many areas of expert witness
work, for example personal and catastrophic injury where post injury care, and financial
considerations are required. We also feature areas of expertise that are rarely featured including, art
fraud and maritime injury.
In today’s digital age, deepfakes represent a significant challenge for digital forensics experts.
Leveraging sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI), these manipulations create highly convincing yet
false content across visual and audio media. In a featured article Ryan Shields shares how the S-RM
Digital Forensics team are researching and developing forensic methods to enable detection of these
fabrications.
Artificial Intelligence is another hot topic and is featured with ‘Shaping the role of the Quantum
Expert in Construction Disputes with evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI)’ by Damith Gayanga,
Associate Director at Quantum. Also ‘AI Hallucinations Hit the High Court by Matthew Herrmann,
Jamie Tomlinson, Imogen Jones & Lucy Grivvell and ‘Prompting Misconduct: When Lawyers Misuse
AI,’ by James Lloyd, Barrister at Mountford Chambers, who discusses the judgment handed down on
6 June 2025 in Ayinde v London Borough of Haringey and Al-Haroun v Qatar National Bank [2025] EWHC
1383 (Admin), in which the Divisional Court issued a powerful warning to legal professionals about the
risks of using generative artificial intelligence tools for legal research and drafting, and provided a stark
reminder of the severe consequences for both lawyers and litigants who knowingly or inadvertently
present ‘fake’ material to the court.
Other articles inform us on ‘How to Respond to a Dawn Raid: A Guide to Dawn Raids in Financial
Crime Investigations.’ An excellent article is ‘My 12 Top Tips to Consider When Instructing an Expert
Witness in Financial Disputes,’ by Ms Fiona Hotston Moore.‘County Lines Quantum – A Flawed
Algorithm’ by Matthew J Atha, Director – Independent Drug Monitoring Unit.
Our next issue will be published in October 2025, it will be available for the Bond Solon Conference
in November, if you have a submission please email us.
Chris Connelly
Editor
Email:chris.connelly@expertwitness.co.uk
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