Keynote address - EWI Annual Conference 2011

"It is a pleasure and an honour to have been asked to give the keynote address to your annual conference. When I was first invited to give this address I thought that it would be a good idea to focus my attention on Jones v Kaney² However, when I looked at your conference programme and saw how it had concentrated, and understandably concentrated, on that landmark decision, I reconsidered. In doing so, I think and hope that I was acting in just the way in which an expert witness, when confronted with fresh evidence, should act. However, perhaps like many expert witnesses, while I have radically changed my focus, I won’t entirely resile from my original position..."