by Mark Tottenham | May 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
Too many expert witnesses in common law courts find themselves in hot water, because they don’t understand what is expected of them. If you want to be a reliable expert witness, here are the 13 simple duties you MUST be aware of: 1. Tell the truth, both in oral...
by Mark Tottenham | Feb 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
[This piece was originally published in the periodical Law Ireland, in April 2017] In the 1990s, with the increased accessibility of the internet and the development of the world wide web, a debate developed over whether this required a new type of law. It was...
by Mark Tottenham | Jan 24, 2025 | Uncategorized
“As Mark Tottenham states in his excellent recent book, The Reliable Expert Witness (2021), ‘everybody needs experts’. 65 However, expert witnesses are in a ‘privileged position because of their specialised knowledge’, 66 and their assistance allows judges to...
by Mark Tottenham | May 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Introduction Online dispute resolution (ODR) technology is now available in a number of forms. If Ireland is to be a centre of internisational dispute resolution, ODR systems need to be embraced by the court system and the legal profession. If Irish lawyers are to...
by Mark Tottenham | Jun 21, 2017 | Uncategorized
(Originally published in Law Ireland, Vol 1, Issue 6) The laws of maintenance and champerty were applied in the case of Persona Digital Telephony Ltd v. Minister for Public Enterprise [2017] IESC 27, reported in this issue. The decision has already been the subject of...
