Members of LPC International’s professionally qualified senior staff have experience of acting as expert witnesses on behalf of clients where our specialist knowledge and analytical skills are appropriate.
Expert Witness activities are headed by David Hayward-Browne. A mechanical engineer with a distribution and industrial background, David has been involved in logistics and supply chain consultancy since 2000. Prior to that he was involved in designing and installing storage and materials handling equipment before moving into distribution.
His specialities as an expert witness are in warehouse design and operations, materials handling and storage sytems design and applications, 3rd party logistics, road transport, warehouse computer systems and health and safety in warehouses.
Examples of expert witness assignments include:
Retained by the defendant in the case of a dispute concerning the acquisition of a new replacement warehouse to replace a previous one damaged in an explosion. David was asked to advise on the logistical improvements resulting from a move to a modern up to date warehouse and to assist the Quantity Surveyors and the Forensic Accountant in the assessment of betterment.
Retained by the client of a 3PL logistics service provider when the 3PL breached its distribution contract by virtue of failing to make delivery to a network of 300 customers in accordance with the pre-agreed delivery schedules, thereby causing substantial and costly disruption to the claimants business. The losses incurred related to warehousing, transport and stock.
Retained by a retail company on matters concerning the phased re-location of its warehousing and distribution operations while extensive repairs were made to the floor of its 25,000m2 distribution centre, due to alleged design and construction faults.
Retained as the expert witness by a food manufacturer to represent its logistics interests at public inquiry concerned with proposed new factory development on greenfield land adjacent to its existing production facilities. Planning permission was granted.