John Haiste

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John Haiste (born Leeds, 1945)

John Haiste is a leading civil engineer and expert witness in Britain in cases involving water engineering. He became a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1993 and joined the Law Society Expert Witness Directory shortly after. [1] His evidence as a Single Joint Expert was quoted in the Court of Appeal on an important decision concerning implied easements. [2]

He was Director of Haiste Ltd (latterly Haiste International) who were the defence in the famous British contract case Birse Construction Ltd v Haiste Ltd in the Court of Appeal (Queen's Bench Division).

The legal ratios established in this case have since been referred to in the House of Lords, by the supreme court judge Lord Justice Roch, and in parliament as registered by Hansard.[3]

John Haiste is also a direct descendant of the engineer John Blenkinsop inventor of the first successful railway locomotive. [4]