An argument for the relevance of litigation to the structural engineer is the recent publication by IStructE of the second, substantially revised, book on expert evidence, and also the publication of an extensive review of that book by Pepper. It is these publications that have provoked me into writing this article. About half of my experience as an expert witness has been in the USA. While I am not making any explicit comparisons between the British and American approaches, the latter may well be of interest in these days of worldwide engineering activity.
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