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Mr Peter Lumley is a Law Society approved expert witness and trained as a single joint expert. Please find below descriptions of some of the cases that Mr Lumley has undertaken as an expert witness on behalf of companies and corporations world-wide.

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Expert Witness Cases

• 1999 Prepared expert report on the £5M claim regarding a new salt processing plant in Ghana, West Africa (Davies Arnold Cooper, London, instructing solicitors).

• 1999 Prepared expert report and gave evidence for Mixamate Holdings Ltd in respect of cooling systems failure (Shadbolt & Co, Reigate, instructing solicitors).

• 1998 Prepared expert report for London Pumps UK Ltd in respect of failure of heat transfer system and pumps at Johnson and Johnson, Portsmouth. Value of claim £200,000 (McNulty & Co, Basingstoke, instructing solicitors).

• 1998 Prepared expert report and gave evidence to the International Court of Arbitration for NOY Vallesina Spa (Italy) against a $20M claim in respect to the mechanical performance of equipment required to manufacture Vitamin C. This included an analysis of the project cost estimate and programme. (Berwin Leighton, London instructing colicitors.)

• 1995-96 Prepared expert report for Total Oil in their successful defence of £4.5M claim by BP Oil over mechanical failure of a turbo expander machine at St Fergus Natural Gas Plant Scotland. See appraisal page for more information.

• 1995-96 Prepared evidence for ARCO (Atlantic Richfiled) in defence of failure of mechanical equipment at an oil refinery. (McKenna & Co, London instructing solicitors.)

• 1989-90 Prepared expert report for Wimpey in their successful defence of a £6M claim by Texaco relating to design of pressure vessels and mechanical failure of a vacuum loading system (Reynolds, Porter Chamberlain, London instructing solicitors).

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