Mark Tottenham BL

Mark Tottenham helps solicitors, clients and expert witnesses to understand what is required to provide effective expert evidence in common law courts. 

He is lead author of A Guide to Expert Witness Evidence (Bloomsbury Professional, 2019) the leading Irish textbook on expert evidence, and winner of the DSBA Practical Law Book of the Year, 2020.

He also wrote The Reliable Expert Witness (Clarus Press, 2021), a handbook for expert and professional witnesses. This has been widely used in common law countries, including the UK, Australia, Ireland and elsewhere. Described as an “Excellent and thorough resource for expert witness work. Insightful and cleverly written by Mark Tottenham.” For more testimonials, see here.

He is the training consultant to The Expert Witness Site, Ireland’s leading expert sourcing agency, and has provided specialist expert witness training to professionals from a range of disciplines in Ireland and elsewhere.

Mark has lectured widely on the topic of expert evidence in Ireland and internationally, to groups including: The Asia Pacific Institute of Experts (Singapore); the EU Counterfeit Experts’ Group (hosted by the European Central Bank); The Honorable Society of Kings Inns (Dublin); The Bar Council of Ireland; The Law Society of Ireland; La Touche Training; CMG Training; and The Society of Construction Law. For further details, see here.

Mark has over 20 years experience of providing legal advice and advocacy in the areas of conveyancing and property law, probate law, construction law and medical negligence. He is a qualified Trust and Estate Practitioner (and a member of the international STEP organisation). He is a Qualified Mediator, certified by the Irish Professional Mediators’ Organisation, specialising in the mediation of property and probate disputes.