Expert Witness
Key Argus Ecology staff have expert witness experience in their specialist areas of expertise, including the following:
Paul Lupton MSc: Recent experience of a major public inquiry for an electricity supply project, providing evidence of impacts on protected species for the appellant.
Kevin Honour MSc MIEEM: Experience of a range of appeals including:
- Provision of specialist botanical evidence at a successful appeal against open access designation to an area of semi-improved upland pasture in Wensleydale;
- Provision of evidence at planning appeal for limestone quarry development in North Yorkshire;
- Provision of evidence at planning appeal for opencast coal development in Co. Durham;
- Provision of evidence at public inquiries for two road schemes in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Caroline Gregory MSc PhD MIEEM: Expert witness experience in criminal trials involving diatom based evidence.