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Information for Experts

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Expert evidence

Form and content of expert's reports

Information

3 Under Rule 35.9 the court may direct a party with access to information which is not reasonably available to another party to serve on that other party a document which records the information. The document served must include sufficient details of all the facts, tests, experiments and assumptions which underlie any part of the information to enable the party on whom it is served to make, or to obtain, a proper interpretation of the information and an assessment of its significance.


Instructions

Questions to experts

Single expert

Orders

Assessors

Duty to restrict expert evidence Rule 35.1

Interpretation Rule 35.2

Experts – overriding duty to the court Rule 35.3

Court’s power to restrict expert evidence Rule 35.4

General requirement for expert evidence to be given in a written report Rule 35.5

Written questions to experts Rule 35.6

Court’s power to direct that evidence is to be given by a single joint expert Rule 35.7

Instructions to a single joint expert Rule 35.8

Power of court to direct a party to provide information Rule 35.9

Contents of report Rule 35.10

Use by one party of expert’s report disclosed by another Rule 35.11

Discussions between experts Rule 35.12

Consequence of failure to disclose expert’s report Rule 35.13

Expert’s right to ask court for directions Rule 35.14

Assessors Rule 35.15

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