Expert Professional Services
GCA has a dedicated team of Chartered Structural, Civil, Transportation and Safety Engineers to provide legal professionals with the necessary support to prepare case appraisals and detailed reports and to attend court as expert witnesses. All commissions are led and prepared by a Director at GCA in full compliance with joint expert witness and CPR rules.Extensive experience in providing expert witness services enables GCA to provide an innovative quick case appraisal to prevent costly abortive litigation as well as traditional full expert report and court attendance if required.
GCA staff can provide full CVs to demonstrate full competency to Civil and Criminal Courts in the areas of structural engineering, geotechnics, subsidence, highway trips or falls, road traffic accidents, safety engineering or planning disputes.
With a case load of approximately 50% Defendant and 50% Claimant appointments, we are well placed to providing professional support to resolve issues in the interest of the Court.
Typical GCA recent cases include:
- Falls on the highway from trips in potholes/paving
- Road traffic accidents resulting from poor maintenance or design of the highway
- Road traffic accidents at roadworks
- Accidents involving vehicles/pedestrians on car parks and industrial premises
- Construction disputes
- Structural defects
- Party Wall Act disputes
- Accident on construction sites or factories.
- Planning Disputes
- Flooding
For the majority of our clients we offer a three stages approach:
1] Preliminary Case Appraisal
2] Detailed Expert Witness Reports / Services
3] Advice and Court Attendance
Our extensive experience of the entire arbitration process is invaluable in the preparation and presentation of cases, responses to claim submissions and in adjudication, conciliation, arbitration and litigation processes.
