Letter Before Action sent and no response. When to appoint expert witness for report?

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Letter Before Action sent and no response. When to appoint expert witness for report?

4th February 2019, 23:20:PM

We have sent a Letter Before Action to a company regarding work done in our house and have had no satisfactory response.

Before taking the next step (lodging the claim), I am wondering if I should go ahead and appoint an expert witness to produce a report. My worry is that I go ahead and pay £500+ for an expert witness, only to find out I cannot claim it back as part of the claim.

So, do I appoint the expert witness now, or at another further stage in the claims process?

Thank you.

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