In 1992 John Kendall published Dispute Resolution: Expert Determination, a slim volume which covered, for the first time, the basic principles of expert determination in a simple, readable style. A second, considerably-expanded edition, entitled simply Expert Determination, followed in 1996, largely prompted by the decision of the House of Lords on the jurisdiction of the expert in Mercury Communications v Director General of Telecommunications.
The ‘massive upheaval’ of the Woolf reforms, increased the attention on forms of alternative dispute resolution including expert determination and the need for ‘commercial lawyers, other professionals working for business and business executives to have a greater understanding of these alternatives’ are the reasons given in the preface as a justification for publication of a third edition.
