Expert witness

Our automotive expert witness service is back up by decades of expertise and experience in legislation non-conformance, safety recalls, issue resolution and IP infringement. We provide independent data and report analysis supported by our global hardware testing facilities.

We work with clients across multiple industry sectors including industrial, automotive, commercial vehicles, defence, motorsports, motorcycle, off-highway vehicles.

• Legislation non-conformance claims
• Exhaust emissions
• Fuel consumption
• On-board diagnostics (OBD)
• Warranty Claims
• In-service failures
• Safety recalls
• Patent / Intellectual Property Infringement
• Hardware design
• Software design
• Data and report analysis
• Expert assessment and opinion
• Hardware testing facilities

Ricardo’s experts are instrumental in creating and developing the UK market for renewable energy and CHP technologies and the market incentives. We audit energy schemes and undertake technical due diligence of proposed renewables installations.

We have an international network of railway assessors and auditors with deep knowledge of national regulations, industry standards and global best practice. They are available to deliver trusted third-party opinion on a wide range of concerns, including matters around safety, operations and conformance with recognised standards.

Our experts will bring expert knowledge and experience of waste and recycling processes to commercial and contractual disputes, insurance claims, criminal cases, and public and planning inquiries.

Includes issues related to:

• Energy from waste (EfW) and biomass energy generation technologies;
• Combustion (incineration);
• Anaerobic digestion (AD);
• Advanced conversion technologies (ACT), including gasification, pyrolysis and combination technologies;
• Mechanical biological treatment (MBT);
• Composting, including in-vessel composting (IVC);
• Materials recovery/recycling facilities (MRF);
• Refuse derived fuel (RDF) and solid recovered fuel (SRF) production facilities and export;
• Environmental permitting and compliance with associated waste management and environmental legislation, regulatory guidance and policy.

We offer air pollution advice to governments and businesses; uniquely giving full policy, advisory and implementation services, from our experts in emissions and odour management, monitoring and abatement. We give investment advice to water utilities and provide expert witnesses for water pollution cases.

Ricardo runs the National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC) supporting the UK emergency services and businesses around the world when chemical incidents occur. We also provide regulatory and compliance advice to the chemicals industry.

Our expert chemists and regulatory specialists can provide expert advice in relation to chemical incidents, minimise negative impacts during an incident (through live telephone advice) and assist with post incident review.