Has the expert witness's new duty to the court, rather than to a particular side in a dispute, altered the nature of the role? Six years on from the Woolf reforms, Martin Hall shares his views on the status of expert witnesses in the English courts
September 21, 2005 at 08:03 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
After more than six years since the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules (CPR) in April 1999, it is perhaps timely to consider how, if at all, the role of the expert witness in modern litigation has changed.
As most readers will be aware, prior to Lord Woolf’s reforms, the ‘job description’ of an expert witness was defined in case law, most famously in the Ikarian Reefer.
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