John Thring & Associates LTD

for the last fifteen years, i have been heavily involved in consultancy work on the engineering aspects of legal actions that involve personal injury, product liability, performance failure or intellectual property. i have prepared over 650 reports under instruction from solicitors and insurance companies on behalf of the claimant, the defendant or both and have appeared in court as an expert witness on numerous occasions. since we started keeping computer-based records, i have acted for the claimant in 21% of matters, for the defendant in 69%, and jointly in 10%. this division has been entirely by chance and has neither been sought nor encouraged. having had considerable, personal experience of the successful design of safe production machinery, processes and products, i have found myself involved with actions involving the failure of machines to perform safely and according to specification or expectation. for the same reason, i have been involved in many cases that have involved the