Mr John Blackwood has been preparing expert reports on weather and sea states for law firms and other agencies for over 20 years.

He has extensive experience of co-operating with other expert witnesses on subjects such as ship motion or navigational matters.

His expert witness work includes:

• Aiding ship routing clients in disputes involving speed and consumption, demurrage, unsafe berth issues etc.
• Appearing in court in support of reports done on shipping and civil incidents at arbitration and court level. Appearing at Arbitrations and the Commercial Court in London as well as several other courts/enquiries.
• Personal Injury where the weather was of relevance.
• Reports on the weather at scenes of crimes.
• Reports on the causes of major events leading to large insurance losses.
• Reports on road conditions – I have many years of experience of aspects of road surface temperature and the problems of forecasting them.

Areas also include:

General meteorology.
Marine meteorology.
Sea state analysis.
Road ice.