Conflict

For those who have no experience of being an expert witness, it is actually not easy to find someone who agrees and is agreeable.

In short, the earth is so small that everyone who have sufficient knowledge in a particular area would have something (albeit indirectly) related to the matter at hand, and people call it conflict of interest - another term that has been raped for so many times that it has become a prostitute.

A notable recent example is the barrister who failed to do business with a billionaire - and it is a conflict.

What about if there was a successful business relation ?

In fact, even if the barrister does not know the rich man at all, there remains a conflict: envy because of failure to make acquaintance.

Well, critics probably believe that there exists a human species called professional layman.

Alas, even if there were such a man, he would still have conflict of interest with that billionaire - the golden spoon that the latter was born with might have belonged to the layman if it were not for the existence of the latter.