Gordon Pollock joins Barnett Waddingham to spearhead drive into expert witness workBarnett Waddingham, the UK’s largest independent firm of actuaries, administrators and consultants has appointed Gordon Pollock to help lead the expansion of the firm's expert witness work.

Gordon, who was formerly a partner at Mercer worldwide and chairman of the Association of Actuaries, has extensive private sector pensions experience acting as scheme actuary to a number of household name pension schemes, as well as providing corporate actuarial advice to FTSE 100 companies. Prior to his early retirement from Mercer, he was their UK chief actuarial officer and had acted as an expert witness for Prudential Assurance Company Limited in the recent Prudential Staff Pension Scheme court case.

Commenting on his appointment Adrian Waddingham (pictured), senior partner said: "We are pleased to welcome someone with such extensive experience to Barnett Waddingham. Gordon is a recognised industry heavyweight and his appointment significantly increases our expert witness capabilities at a time when we are seeing an increase in the number of cases that require expert witness support. Gordon will be working with the current Barnett Waddingham team building on our existing work and developing the firm’s name in this specialist field.”