Surveillance and evidence acquired in dubious circumstances

Video surveillance evidence is used in all sorts of civil litigation disputes. The first segment of this webinar will consider the law applicable to acquiring and deploying such evidence. The remainder will look specifically at issues arising from surveillance in personal injury claims, where a finding of fundamental dishonesty will wipe out qualified one-way costs shifting and open up a costs liability.

Topics covered include:

• When should evidence be disclosed?
• Editing and surveillance logs
• Unlawfully acquired material
• What experts must do if their opinion is at odds with video evidence
• Lessons from the Atunaya v MoD case (2026), where the claimant was found fundamentally dishonest even after discontinuing their case
• Surveillance evidence as an ambush? Middleton v Carnival (2026) considered
• Evidence in employment litigation