From Surveyor to Expert Witness: Turning a Standard Defects Report into CPR‑Compliant Evidence Without Starting Again

Only 38% of expert witness reports submitted in UK civil proceedings fully satisfy CPR Part 35 requirements on first submission — yet the majority of surveyors who face this compliance gap already hold the factual evidence they need. [2] The problem is rarely a shortage of data. It is a structural one: the original report […]