Court Procedures Rules
1200Purposes—pt 2.12
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1200 Purposes—pt 2.12 The purposes of this part are as follows: (a) to ensure the court has control over the giving of expert evidence; (b) to restrict expert evidence in a proceeding to that which is reasonably necessary to resolve the proceeding; (c) to avoid unnecessary costs associated with parties retaining different experts; (d) to ensure expert witnesses are bound by a code of conduct; (e) if practicable and without compromising the interests of justice—to enable expert evidence to be given on an issue in a proceeding by a single expert agreed to by the parties or appointed by the court; (f) if necessary to ensure a fair trial of a proceeding—to allow for 2 or more experts to give evidence on an issue in the proceeding.