Experts: In safe hands

Neil Jamieson and Paul Mesquitta outline the perils involved in changing experts ‘One can easily see a situation where a judge considers that a party who has delayed informing the other party of the need to change expert has done so because they have been expert shopping.’As practitioners will know, the rules governing the use …
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Experts: Getting the story straight

Emma Davies and Clare Arthurs analyse the new streamlined Guidance for the Instruction of Expert Witnesses post-Mitchell and Jackson ‘Parties must be able to demonstrate that the expert evidence on which they seek to rely is fundamental to their case, particularly given the courts’ increased case management powers and heightened sensibilities regarding proportionality.’ It cannot …
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