Principles common to all expertises
Expertise and Expert concerning construction sites – How as expertise is conducted

In all cases, the expert must not accept an assignment:

• if he does not consider himself competent in the technique concerned;

• if there is a risk of a conflict of interest between itself and one (or more) participant(s), for example :

  • the expert (or someone close to him) has any interest in the case in dispute,

  • the expert is linked in any way to one of the parties involved, the latter being linked to one of the parties as :

    – relative or ally, heir,

    – creditor, debtor,

  • the expert is subordinate to one of the parties,

  • there is a known friendship (or enmity) between the expert and any party ;

  • etc.

In other words, in all cases where the expert does not feel free to act, and where his impartiality may be challenged, he must leave the...