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Woolf plans limits on experts` role

By: Language: English Series: Property Week ; 59(9) 6 September 1996, 21(1)Publication details: 1996Subject(s): Summary: Discusses Lord Woolf`s proposals to tackle the problem of expert witnesses becoming partisan during a legal case. He proposes that the expert`s report should be addressed to the court rather than the party instructing him and that the report should be accompanied by rules stating the expert`s impartiality.

Discusses Lord Woolf`s proposals to tackle the problem of expert witnesses becoming partisan during a legal case. He proposes that the expert`s report should be addressed to the court rather than the party instructing him and that the report should be accompanied by rules stating the expert`s impartiality.