Providing experts to
find out what went wrong, when and how
Our forensic services department carefully selects experts from
within Capita Symonds for their professional knowledge, experience
and skill. However, we do recognise that professional knowledge
alone is not enough, so we assess all potential experts
for their suitability for the work and provide training, witness
preparation and mentoring for directors and senior staff to help
them deliver advice and evidence to a consistently high
standard.
Our forensic researchers are trained by
leading industry specialists and work across many
disciplines. All technical direction, knowledge, and
opinion is provided by the expert, with the assistance of
experienced researchers to produce reports of a high standard of
non-technical accessibility, consistency, style, and, where
appropriate, compliance with the civil procedure rules.
Depending on the needs of the case, the researcher’s role could
include:
- proof-reading/sub-editing draft reports
- document research for the expert (such as searching documents
for answers to questions)
- keeping track of relevant facts and matters in incoming
evidence
- visiting a site to take photographs
- assisting instructing solicitors with case development
- assisting instructing solicitors with discovery
- acting as a second point of contact when instructing solicitors
need to raise technical points with their expert.
As a multi-disciplinary consultancy, Capita Symonds can
offer specialists covering a wide range of professional
disciplines. Recent instructions have included:
- architecture: buildings, landscape and urban
- bridges and culverts
- concrete: including cracking and watertightness
- contaminated land
- demolition and collapse
- earthworks: including slope and rock engineering
- environment
- conservation, ecology, sustainability and waste
- foundations and underpinning
- geotechnical engineering: including ground improvement,
landslips and mining
- health & safety
- highways and transportation
- marine and coastal engineering
- materials and minerals
- mechanical & electrical engineering - including building
services
- quantum / delay analysis
- retaining walls and piling
- subsidence and heave
- surface and foul water drainage – including inland and coastal
flooding
- tunnels