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Who We Are

We were established in 2013. Our company Duggan and Barrett Consulting and Engineering Services Ltd is located in Teeling Street Co Sligo. We cover Connaught mainly, parts of Leinster and Donegal and surrounding areas. Patrick Barrett is a Chartered Building Engineer (MCABE) and part of The Registered Building Surveyors. (SCSI) and also BEng MIEI who offer a range of services that cover the a number of areas:

We have 15+ years of  experience acting as Expert Witness in disputes relating to construction works, boundary disputes Road Traffic Collisions, Workplace Accidents and other cases where Engineering Evidence is required.

We work with Solicitors and Barristers throughout the process.

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Building surveyor - Construction Supervision

This role involves being responsible for maintaining, altering, repairing, refurbishing and restoring existing buildings.A building surveyor provides professional advice on all aspects of the construction of new buildings and the maintenance, repair, alteration and renovation of existing ones. Building surveying is less of a desk bound job than some of the other branches of surveying, with a large proportion of the working day spent on site. Building surveying work may include the design, maintenance, alteration, repair, refurbishment and restoration of existing buildings. Building surveyors organise structural surveys, ensure projects are completed in time, carry out legal work that will include negotiating with local planning bodies, and advise clients on areas such as sustainability or the preservation of historical or listed buildings.

The Expert Witness In Court

The weight of evidence
A court of law is a place where a fact is not a fact until it is proved — or in certain cases, disproved — by incontrovertible evidence. Here, the role of the expert witness becomes paramount.

The weight of responsibility
Often, the evidence put forward in a trial by an expert witness can be a deciding factor in tipping the balance in favour of a well-informed, reliable well considered judgment.

YOUR ROLE AS AN EXPERT WITNESS

To be an expert witness, you need to be an expert. This may seem obvious, but note that an expert is not the same as an expert witness An expert offers special expertise in a particular field.

As an expert witness however, he or she needs to offer additional skills and abilities – courtroom skills and report writing, for example — which can be enhanced by training and developed over time. When in court, the expert witness methodically presents opinion evidence based on evidence of fact. The subsequent report — which the expert witness also prepares — would be written within a specified time scale in compliance with specific legal guidelines.