Design failures

摘要

For design failure cases, I learned decades ago that the courts expect the expert to be a practicing design engineer. Unless familiar with the particular facet of the design failure, the expertise of the expert engineer was under question. What better example do we have than the majority of MPs who have no background in business! Finding a solution to rectify a failure was, in my experience, seldom carried out by an appointed expert. On one such occasion the expert discovered that he had an embarrassing conflict of interest.