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Serendipity Chartered Engineers

t: + 44 (0) 1534 565 829 / + 44 (0) 7797 791 025 e: simon@serendipitycharteredengineers.co.uk

Welcome to Serendipity Chartered Engineers

• A practicing technically competent Chartered Electrical Engineer with over forty years’ experience

• Expert Witness and Forensic Expert Witness, works with accuracy, integrity and reliability

• An unwavering commitment to working with impartiality and independence

• A Practising articulate and ethical mediator, keen advocate of alternative dispute resolution

• Highly developed proactive interpersonal skills, very experienced at obtaining and disseminating information

Electrical Technical Specialisms

• Non-essential and essential electrical infrastructures, building management systems

• Emergency standby generation and uninterruptable power supplies

• Solar photovoltaic plants and distribution infrastructures

• Sustainability, wind, photovoltaic and air source heat pump systems

• Telecommunication and computer data infrastructures

• Interior, exterior, emergency, laser, and feature lighting

• Conventional and aspirating fire alarm and smoke ventilation systems

• Closed circuit television, intruder alarm and access control systems

• Conventional fireman’s and firefighting lift installations

• Lightning protection, conventional and specialist computer clean earthing systems

Expert Witness and Forensic Expert Witness Expertise

• Mediation, arbitration, litigation, technical and contractual assistance to legal profession

• Liaison with Claimants, Defendants, Advocates, Solicitors, Insurers & Loss Adjusters

• Single and Joint Expert Witness in accordance with Civil Procedure Rules part 35

• Court attendance, cross examination of expert witness reports

• Obviousness, validity/invalidity, state of the art, Patents disputes

• Wayleave and boundary trespass disputes

• Compilation of desk top study and site investigation expert witness reports

• Compilation of detailed forensic expert witness reports

• Building inspections to determine compliance to Electrical British Standards & Codes of Practice

• Compilation of Bankable Studies, Scott Schedules, damage and loss schedules

• Identification of causation, production of remedial work strategies

• Quantum and commercial analysis of cost claims and losses

• Due diligence and dilapidation surveys

• Legislative compliance to national and international standards

• Pro bono expert witness and forensic engineering cases

• Claimant after the event (ATE) insurance case loss fees/and case win defendant pays fees

Tabseer Group, Saudi Arabia, Technical Auditor - Europe

Tabseer Group is registered with the following Middle Eastern organisations:

• Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which comprises of seven Middle Eastern countries

• Organisation for Standardisation (GSO), which provides the Gulf Conformity Mark (Gmark)

• Gulf Accreditation Centre (GAC), which grants product technical conformity certificates

I provide technical support and inspection services to industrial and economic sectors of the GCC to ensure that manufactured and imported luminaires, electrical equipment and accessories etc. have been fully tested and comply with relevant international technical regulations and codes of practice.

Accreditations

• Engineering Council Registered Chartered Electrical Engineer

• Fellow of Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

• Member of The Academy of Experts

• Member of the Expert Witness Institute

• Member of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators

• Member of the Society of Light and Lighting

• Member of the Electrical Contractors Association

Insurance Cover

• Expert witness, mediation, and arbitration professional indemnity insurance

• Public and products liability insurance

Recent Cases

Case: Pulsant v John Heaney Electrical
Subject: Computer Data Centre Thermal Runaway UPS Failures Due to Faulty Batteries
Instruction: DAD Law
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: Microlights UK v AV Lichtplanners BV
Subject: Luminaire Optics & Control Gear Design Patent Infringement
Instruction: Robins Kaplan
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: The Extra Care Charitable Trust v Willmott Dixon
Subject: Continual Recessed downlighter Luminaire Early Failures
Instruction: Extra Care Charitable Trust
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: Beesley Builders v Scottish & Southern Energy
Subject: Scottish & Southern Energy Substation Betterment to Other Clients Costs
Instruction: Beesley Builders
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Mediation

Case: Uninterruptible Power Supplies Ltd v Shield Batteries
Subject: Battery Continual Early Battery Failures Due to Lack of Ventilation
Instruction: Uninterruptible Power Supplies Ltd
For: Defendant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: Anchor Trust v Galliford Try
Subject: Care Home Multiple Non-Compliant Electrical Services Installations
Instruction: Anchor Trust
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Remedial Work

Case: Medway Maritime Hospital NHS Trust v Crown House Engineering
Subject: Critical Life Safety Support Electrical Services Infrastructure Failures
Instruction: Medway Maritime Hospital NHS Trust
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Mediation

Case: Mr Wilcox v Meridian Blinds
Subject: Vertical Window Blind Raise and Lower Motor Failures
Instruction: Mr Wilcox
For: Defendant
Appointment: Expert Report & Mediation
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: Orkney Health Board v G&A Barnie
Subject: Fibre Optic Cable Failure & Loss of Essential Services
Instruction: Orkney Health Board
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Report
Proceedings: Litigation

Case: Attorney General v Rok Homes
Subject: Buried Jersey Electricity Electrical Cable Electrocution
Instruction: Viberts
For: Defendant
Appointment: Expert Report
Proceedings: Mediation & Litigation

Case: W1 Development v Casais Construction Gibraltar
Subject: Mixed Use High Rise Residential Tower Electrical Services Latent Defects
Instruction: TSN Barristers & Solicitors
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Mediation

Case: Tigertel Limited v Siva Selvarajah
Subject: Convenience Store EDF Energy Electricity Theft & Electrical Services Defects
Instruction: Kingston Law
For: Defendant
Appointment: Expert Report
Proceedings: Litigation

Case: Neil Martin v ER Productions
Subject: Silverstone Race Circuit Christmas Themed Public Drive Laser Light Eye Injury
Instruction: Geoffrey Leaver Solicitors
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Report
Proceedings: Litigation

Case: Percy Ingle Bakeries v Eliwel Controls
Subject: Soft Drinks Refrigerator Failure & Resultant Bakery Shop Fire
Instruction: DWF Law
For: Defendant
Appointment: Expert Report
Proceedings: Litigation

Case: Churchill Place v Seven Capital (Basingstoke)
Subject: High Rise Residential Tower Electrical Services Latent Defects
Instruction: Lamb Brooks Solicitors
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: Brian Burns v Proton.JE
Subject: Incorrect Electrical Installation & Condition Report Plus Light Switch Electrocution
Instruction: Viberts
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: Shirebrook Retail v Fortress Security Alarms
Subject: Fire Alarm System Modem Failure To Send Signal to ARC & Resultant Retail Outlet Fire
Instruction: Kennedys
For: Defendant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: D W Windsor v Urbis Schreder
Subject: Luminaire Optics & Control Gear Design Patent Infringement
Instruction: JMW Solicitors
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: Spoke MEP v Ms Lenise Gleeson
Subject: Electrical Services Contractor Installation Quality & invoice Payments Dispute
Instruction: Preston Legal
For: Claimant
Appointment: Quantum Report
Proceedings: Litigation

Case: Georg Von Opel v Sherlock London
Subject: Swimming Pool Illumination & Electrical Services Latent Defects
Instruction: Rosling King LLP
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: Stanka Vassileva v ILS Operations
Subject: Fast Food Restaurant Egg Poacher Electrocution
Instruction: Taylor Rose MW
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Litigation

Case: EuroCity Development Limited v Sacyr Gibraltar
Subject: Mixed Use Residential Tower Vanity Units Defects
Instruction: TSN Barristers & Solicitors
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

Case: EuroCity Development Limited v Sacyr Main Contractors Gibraltar
Subject: Water Plant Room Flooding Resultant Multiple Electrical Services Defects
Instruction: TSN Barristers & Solicitors
For: Claimant
Appointment: Expert Witness Report
Proceedings: Pre-Action

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