AQ v UD LCRO 188/2013 (10 August 2013) [pdf, 206 KB]
...Court in the guise of an expert witness. [53] I note however that the Committee observed that Ms CR had been engaged by Mrs AQ to provide counselling support for C, and I agree with the Committee that Ms CR’s role as counsellor for C, with the consequential duties of privacy and likely partiality for C which inevitably arose from that relationship, may well have been incompatible with the role of an independent expert witness. [54] The Standards Committee concluded that Mr UD shou...