BCL Law Notes Principles of Civil Procedure Notes
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KEY QUESTIONS |
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Should privilege be removed from all expert communications? |
Should we prefer court-appointed joint experts or party-appointed experts? If party-appointed experts, should we prefer concurrent evidence? |
PROVISIONS | ||
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CPR | 35.10 | (3) The expert’s report must state the substance of all material instructions, whether written or oral, on the basis of which the report was written. (4) The instructions referred to in paragraph (3) shall not be privileged against disclosure but the court will not, in relation to those instructions –
unless satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to consider the statement of instructions given under paragraph (3) to be inaccurate or incomplete. |
Practice Direction | 35 |
GENERAL NOTES (Higgins and Zuckerman) |
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Basic conundrum: experts needed to assist court in understanding complex technical/scientific material which requires expertise courts lacks — how is court to assess the reliability of competing expert evidence? Broadly three main categories of issues with expert evidence:
CPR adopted three important measures to address particular problem of “cultural of partisanship” within expert evidence:
Admissibility of expert evidence:
Expert Role/Duties:
Court’s power over expert evidence
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