sec.66Expert evidence

sec.66 Expert evidence

The court must consider whether to make an order in a child protection proceeding requiring a written social assessment report about the child and the child’s family to be prepared and filed in the court under the Child Protection Act , section 68 (1) (a) . The court may issue directions about whether and how expert evidence is to be taken in a child protection proceeding, including, for example, by issuing a direction— about the matters for which expert evidence is to be provided; or about the type of expert that is to provide the expert evidence; or about the number of experts to be called in the proceeding, including directing that the parties agree on a single expert for an issue; or about the appointment of an expert by the court or jointly by the parties; or about matters to be included in the terms of reference or document list for an expert, including directing the parties to seek agreement to the draft terms of reference or document list to be used by the expert. (sec.66-ssec.1) The court must consider whether to make an order in a child protection proceeding requiring a written social assessment report about the child and the child’s family to be prepared and filed in the court under the Child Protection Act , section 68 (1) (a) . (sec.66-ssec.2) The court may issue directions about whether and how expert evidence is to be taken in a child protection proceeding, including, for example, by issuing a direction— about the matters for which expert evidence is to be provided; or about the type of expert that is to provide the expert evidence; or about the number of experts to be called in the proceeding, including directing that the parties agree on a single expert for an issue; or about the appointment of an expert by the court or jointly by the parties; or about matters to be included in the terms of reference or document list for an expert, including directing the parties to seek agreement to the draft terms of reference or document list to be used by the expert.

• (a) about the matters for which expert evidence is to be provided; or
• (b) about the type of expert that is to provide the expert evidence; or
• (c) about the number of experts to be called in the proceeding, including directing that the parties agree on a single expert for an issue; or
• (d) about the appointment of an expert by the court or jointly by the parties; or
• (e) about matters to be included in the terms of reference or document list for an expert, including directing the parties to seek agreement to the draft terms of reference or document list to be used by the expert.